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

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Post by digitalPhonix »

stateofinquiry wrote: post #44
luxpir wrote: post #29

I really appreciate this write-up. Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access. Brief context for that: was being granted a salesnav licence, but to my work address with no account attached to it. Plus I had an existing salesnav trial underway on main account and didn't want to give access to that work. So I reluctantly verified wit…

Thank you for sharing this. I understand, and even agree, that how this is being handled has some pretty creepy aspects. But one thing missing from the comments I see here and elsewhere is: How else should verification be handled? We have a real problem with AI/bots online these days, trust will be at a premium. How can we try to assure it? I can think of one way: Everyone must pay to be a member (there will still be…

He (Rick Song, Persona CEO) is verified:

   > Identity
   > 
   > Verified using government ID in March 2025
Not that I would necessarily trust a verification badge for someone who controls the company with the responsibility for generating verification badges.

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

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Post by hackable_sand »

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_ _opinion_ _is_ _definitely_ _biased_ _,_ _not_ _potentially_ _._

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

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Post by efreak »

drnick1 wrote: post #379
anjel wrote: post #372

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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.

I usually try to make it obvious what company I have the account to, it makes it easier to track down in cases where the service isn't one that sends mail often. Samsung will not let me use Samsung in my email address. Many companies don't want your email address to include their name.

After I give up and use a real address, some companies will reject my personal first@last.family address because it's still Y2K and .family is not a valid tld.

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

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

andrewjf wrote: post #217
mark_l_watson wrote: post #158

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Beautifully written, I saved your post to send the next friend or relative who asks me why I am so hard-over on privacy. I enjoyed working at Google hears ago as a contractor, and they are my ‘favorite’ tech company - the only mega-tech company who’s services I regularly use, but I am constantly mindful of their business model as I use YouTube, GCP, and their various dev APIs.

being "hard-over on privacy" and regularly using google services is an astounding level of cognitive dissonance.

No, it's not. At least argue your point in more detail, don't stop at "just saying stuff".

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

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #497
logifail wrote: post #481

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> their democracy appears to be very high functioning, which demonstrates this form of democracy can work well This probably depends on your definition of "working well". In March 2025, after the last Federal elections were held in Germany (February 2025), but before the new parliament was constituted (within 30 days of the results?), the new governing coalition engineered a constitutional amendment which required a…

I added that last line as a honeypot, as part of my ongoing project on HN. No matter what I say positive about some country, culture, or institution, someone will pop into the conversation to say: "Yes, but what about this one incident. See, X is not so great after all." I think we need an equivalent of Brandolini's law for counterpoint of negativity in all HN discussions. It is as though people think they are dispro…

> To react to your specific incident, I think a more nuanced view would be to say that all highly functioning democracies have incidents that are "perfectly legal, but appear as an abuse of process". I don't really think that detracts from the overall statement that Germany is a highly functioning democracy. Moreover, highly functional democracies regularly change parliamentary rules to reduce incidents like this.

I agree with the repealing of the debt brake (it was a dumb idea that lead to badness, exported right across the EU), but there's no question that how it happened was pretty un-democratic. Like, procedurally it's fine but it was essentially making a big change in a lame-duck session of Parliament.

None of this disputes the notion that Germany is a high functioning democracy, but I guarantee that this action will be brought up again and again by populists in the future, as an example of how the "elites" don't care about democracy. The sad part is, they will be entirely correct in this particular case.

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

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Post by gib444 »

aylmao wrote: post #288

I'll note that Persona's CEO responded on LinkedIn [1] pointing out that: - No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is exclusively used to confirm your identity. - All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing. - All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot. - The only subprocessor…

Man, a top-voted, white-knight comment on each post involving FAANG gets really tiring

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

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Post by bicepjai »

Exoristos wrote: post #349
bicepjai wrote: post #197

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In the era of agents, just create your own website. Also it is insane that this is happening.

Yes. Then, you only have to convince Bing Copilot (et al.) to eventually list that website of yours.

Are you saying we need our website to be shown in search results ? Can you elaborate on your comments ? Genuinely curious

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Post by nashashmi »

parineum wrote: post #487
nashashmi wrote: post #359

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Can a ceo's word on linkedin and X be used to make claims against them?

Anything a publicly traded company would state that would lead to a person making a decision to buy or sell stock would be subject to FTC regulations.

And if it is not a publicly traded company? Can the CEO in question making statements and assurances on a forum or linkedin or X in communication with a user cause the company to be in a binding position?

Or would it be an empty promise?

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

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Post by saghm »

__float wrote: post #303
saghm wrote: post #299

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I'm not convinced there's any significant overlap between "people who are worried about which subprocessors have their data" and "people who don't think that eight subprocessors is a lot"

I mean, two of them are cloud vendors. The rest just seem like very boring components of a (somewhat) modern data pipeline.

The issue isn't the vendors themselves necessarily but the quantity of them. Plenty of boring things over the years have had security vulnerabilities that end up with data getting leaked, so each additional one is just more risk even if you trust them not to be actively malicious. All it takes is one well-meaning but careless vendor to make the whole house of cards collapse.
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