What a sad story. I feel sorry for this person. But it was very naive to put that data up in the first place. I recently tried to open a FB acct so I could connect with local community but within 2 days I was accused of being a bot and asked to start a video interview with a verification bot. That didn't happen, local community can do without me ;)

> If you’ve already verified — like me — here’s what I’d recommend

Did you actually follow through with 1-4 and if so what was the outcome? how long did it take?

LinkedIn locked me out of my account, and wants me to verify via this same Persona company. I didn't read the terms but there's no way I'm giving Microsoft or its minions my govt id.

What this user missed is the affidavit option: you can get a piece of paper attested by a local authority and upload that instead, if you really really need a LinkedIn verified account.

Microsoft can go jump.

I wonder what mongo and snowflake are doing with that data. The table is a little vague.

I was under the impression they just make database products. Do they have a side hustle involving collecting this type of data?

Ha. I was reading this and thought "euhhhh, I did not give all of that to verify my account". So I went to LinkedIn to check if I have the shield. I then saw

- that I just have "work email verified" and that there is a Persona thing I was not even aware of

- a post by Brian Krebs at the top of my feed, exactly on that topic: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bkrebs_if-you-are-thinking-ab...

You still have a linkedin? Isn't that just all ai slop?

How does this work for the myriad banks I've had to prove my identity to in the same way? I'll be attempting steps 1-4 and see what Persona comes back with.

> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport

Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...

Just wait when next time they ask for your member length and girth or flaps size.

You can verify yourself using company email address - maybe I am being naive to think that it’s much safer, but it’s way better than handing over your ID data.

I never understand why people supply too much info about themselves for small gains.

People at LinkedIn wants you to believe that your career is safe if you play by their games, but ironically they are one of the main reasons why companies nowadays are comfortable with hiring and firing fast.

I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack.

I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account.

Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address.

It would be interesting to run a semi-controlled experiment to test whether this was a fluke, or if they leaked, sold, or otherwise lost control of my data. But absolutely I will not trust them with anything I want to keep private.

I do not trust LinkedIn to keep my data secure ... I believe they sold it.

From the article:

> Let that sink in. You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies. Not a single EU-based subprocessor in the chain.

Not sure LinkedIn is a European professional network.

Since some job offers require a linked in link, I maintain an empty page explaining why maintaining a LI account is a privacy and security hole. It turns out it works.