If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Their implementation of this was what convinces me it was time to shitcan LinkedIn. Did so about 6 months ago before this all happened and never looked back.
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@tuneintodetuned @briankrebs I won't verify, but linkedin is probably the least sketchy way to find a job. Most of the spam I get comes from my info being on dice, indeed and careerbuilder. I've tried some other places for remote only positions, and I'm starting to follow the #getfedihired and #fedihire tags here looking for work. Another 3 or 4 weeks and it'll be a year of searching.
@maaneeack @tuneintodetuned @briankrebs this jives with my experience. It’s a low bar when LI is the better option.
I also worry about all the tools involved like resume building tools and job application management tools like workday. Applicants often have little choice but to share quite personal data and I fear what is done with it -
@maaneeack @tuneintodetuned @briankrebs this jives with my experience. It’s a low bar when LI is the better option.
I also worry about all the tools involved like resume building tools and job application management tools like workday. Applicants often have little choice but to share quite personal data and I fear what is done with it@dgodon @tuneintodetuned @briankrebs yeah, it's either allow the ai to scan your resume when you submit and agree to our 1500 page long privacy policy & terms of use, or don't apply. When I was still getting unemployment that wasn't really an option. Even now I just agree and submit, I need a job.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs That’s kinda creepy! I didn’t know LinkedIn shared so much stuff. Maybe I’ll think twice before uploading my selfie now… or just delete the app.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
The startup world is just as guilty of this. Everyone's building the same productivity SaaS with slightly different colors. The real innovation happens when someone ignores what everyone else is doing
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Deleted acct.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs So glad I left that horrible platform a few months back.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs that's scary stuff.
I deleted my account a while ago because of the AI slop and discriminatory policy changes but I feel sorry for anyone who unknowingly submits their data to those companies
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs Whoaaa!
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs Deleted Linkedin few weeks ago.
Well not linkedin... my account obviously
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs I shut down my account back in September. It was constantly getting spam from 'recruiters'.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs Omg Thanks for the information
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs I'm not on LinkedIn. It pisses potential employers, and I get asked "why?" And I respond "Because nothing about work should construe a social relationship of any kind". Maybe that's why I'm sill unemployed
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs how else will I find immediate interviews for an entry-level help desk job for $12/hour in the South Pole from someone who clearly didn’t look at my profile?
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs The raping of PII across platforms is out of control and our officials are too clueless and spineless to take action against it. I highly recommend Terms of Service Did Not Read: https://tosdr.org/en/. It's my go to when (100% of the time) I have neither the time or inclination to swallow the legalese vomit supplied by site ToS. Down with the ToSers... erm... I mean the people who make ToS hard to read.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@briankrebs What's more, LinkedIn locks out users for no reason, forcing Persona verification to regain the account. Officially they claim to allow providing a notarized affidavit instead of Persona for verification, but my experience was that after providing the affidavit (to an unlisted email; once locked out, there's no documented support contact) I was then told to go through Persona again.
I was seemingly locked out for simply having changed my 2FA to not use their app, but a code.
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@briankrebs What's more, LinkedIn locks out users for no reason, forcing Persona verification to regain the account. Officially they claim to allow providing a notarized affidavit instead of Persona for verification, but my experience was that after providing the affidavit (to an unlisted email; once locked out, there's no documented support contact) I was then told to go through Persona again.
I was seemingly locked out for simply having changed my 2FA to not use their app, but a code.
@briankrebs I found Reddit threads full of other frustrated users suddenly locked out and finding their professional networks held hostage to error prone and privacy invading identity verification, without means of appeal. If not for those threads I wouldn't have been able to reach customer support, as the only documented support is gated by login. And of course, it would be a violation of their policies to create another account.
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If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
This explains why Koch is promoting Ai to the gullible in an alliance with Microsoft.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/To manipulate elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.htmlGetting people accustomed to giving up their jobs to slave owners using detention center labor is going to be a tough sell.
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-foodhttps://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/02/16/colorado-prison-labor-slavery-ruling-servitude/
Workers have AI threats hanging over their heads
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/why-your-boss-loves-ai-and-you-hate-it-profits-end-of-capitalism/https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/02/ai-improving-wages-job-quality/
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This explains why Koch is promoting Ai to the gullible in an alliance with Microsoft.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/To manipulate elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.htmlGetting people accustomed to giving up their jobs to slave owners using detention center labor is going to be a tough sell.
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-foodhttps://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/02/16/colorado-prison-labor-slavery-ruling-servitude/
Workers have AI threats hanging over their heads
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/why-your-boss-loves-ai-and-you-hate-it-profits-end-of-capitalism/https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/02/ai-improving-wages-job-quality/
@Npars01 @briankrebs "convict leasing?!?!"
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@Npars01 @briankrebs "convict leasing?!?!"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/trump-administration-epa-prison-company-donations
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
Convict Leasing has a long and storied legacy in the USA.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/documentary-relays-forgotten-tales-of-post-civil-war-slavery
"Slavery by Another Name"
CoreCivic and Geo Corp donated to the GOP to get convict leasing for detention centers.
https://www.thirteen.org/programs/slavery-by-another-name/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/its-still-slavery-by-another-name/
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/douglas-blackmon
https://www.pbs.org/articles/10-must-watch-black-history-documentaries
