I verified my LinkedIn Identity. Here's what I actually handed over.
If we have any real plan for data sovereignty, the time to start implementing it is before I was born.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
To add to the article, Persona is also one of the companies at the centre of the recent furore around Discord age verification.
That's among the reasons I never had a LinkedIn account.
Even the original use case for LinkedIn asked you to have your entire work history and contact information on the site. That alone always made it a massive target for bad actors trying to collect information to use for identity theft.