I verified my LinkedIn Identity. Here's what I actually handed over.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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

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adespoton@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 191d

To add to the article, Persona is also one of the companies at the centre of the recent furore around Discord age verification.

kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 190d

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.