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Thought this belonged here. The not so comfortable truth about verifying your identity to a company that purchases their verification services from a third party.

Persona maintains a public list of subprocessors aka third-party companies that process your personal data on their behalf. “If your data leaks? Persona’s Terms of Service cap their liability at $50 USD. Oh and you’re also agreeing to a mandatory binding arbitration: you can’t take them to court.”

If you are on Linkedin and think of verifying your account, you may wish to read this first.

Att posta sådana här länkar är 90% av skälet att jag fortfarande inte tagit bort mitt linkedinkonto.

This is a very good article about what happens when you agree to verify your Linkedin account, and probably any kind of big tech age verification process.

If we have any real plan for data sovereignty, the time to start implementing it is before I was born.

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy. Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service. Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s.