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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by gib444 »

wolvoleo wrote: post #199
poszlem wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this sentiment constantly. It is genuinely hilarious to watch Americans lecture the world about the free market while feigning shock that Europe hasn't produced its own tech giants. Claiming "the EU had 20 years to build an equally successful product" is the geopolitical equivalent of a deeply dysfunctional 1950s household. For decades, the husband insisted he handle all the enterprise and security so he could…

Exactly! It's the same with the military dependency. America wanted a weak Europe, to be dependent on them so they would have geopolitical influence. They basically bought influence. They didn't want us to have nukes to defend ourselves from the Russians (the French are frowned upon and the British don't really have their own, they are beholden to the US). It also gave them a huge market for their products and servic…

> America wanted a weak Europe, to be dependent on them so they would have geopolitical influence

100% in agreement

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by anjel »

drnick1 wrote: post #336
ColinWright wrote: post #20

I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…

This is precisely why I give each website an alias such as website@example.com. If I start receiving spam to that address, I revoke the alias and name and shame the website online whenever I get the chance. Not that I would use LinkedIn anyway.

proxy emails are rejected more and more. Same with google tel numbers. The internet feels more and more like the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars.

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Post by cco »

People who found this post interesting may also find this blog post about Persona a good read as well: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/

tl;dr Persona shares your identity data directly with the federal governments of the US and Canada and likely is sharing data/works with ICE on the same.

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Post by tryauuum »

laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

> your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Who are we kidding here? Why would _that_ be the problem?

It's a strange logic. "Evil thing X will happen anyway so it's acceptable for me to work in a company doing evil thing X". You should be ashamed of building searchable databases of faces

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Post by trinsic2 »

If you are using Linked in for anything at this point, you are just asking for trouble. They have no interest in maintaining a healthy business ecosystem and you can see that with the way they try to close you into their system and the amount of AI slop that is on that platform.

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Post by gib444 »

csmpltn wrote: post #188
gib444 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps" advice has more weight when the person saying it hasn't taken control of all bootstraps for a good 75 years. This is this toxicity in the toxic relationship between the US and EU. Foot in our faces telling us to pick ourselves up. Ditto South America.

Victim mentality? Explain what stops Europe from producing a worthy LinkedIn competitor that challenges LinkedIn's hegemony.

> Victim mentality

Oh please.

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Post by drnick1 »

anjel wrote: post #372
drnick1 wrote: post #336

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is precisely why I give each website an alias such as website@example.com. If I start receiving spam to that address, I revoke the alias and name and shame the website online whenever I get the chance. Not that I would use LinkedIn anyway.

proxy emails are rejected more and more. Same with google tel numbers. The internet feels more and more like the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars.

How would the website know that it is a "proxy email?" I am using my own domain name and email server, and don't believe I ever received a rejection.

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by weird_tentacles »

flumpcakes wrote: post #329

I am about to talk about "vibes" and "feelings" so please take this with a grain of salt: Does anyone else get the impression that they feel like the nefarious surveillance state is now real and definitely not for their benefit? It's been a long running trope of the men in black, and the state listening to your phone calls, etc. Even after Snowdon's leaks, where we learned that there are these massive dragnets scoopi…

You are slooowwly waking up.
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