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LinkedIn locked my account and wants me to do ID verification through Persona
(piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
I haven't tried to log into my account for a few weeks because LinkedIn is a cesspool. When I logged in just now (with a passkey, btw), it brought me to this page.
I've had this account for over a decade and used it to get my current position. I don't want to use LinkedIn, but it's pretty much a requirement in my industry.
I'm not sure if I should cave or what. I read the privacy policy for Persona's ID verification and it states that the data is immediately destroyed after verification, or held for three years.
This shit should be fucking illegal, and yet, in much of the world, it's being made enforced legislation. Fuck any company and politician that supports, funds, or operates this bullshit.
This is the second person I've seen (without even trying) in a week running into this. Since Lemmy is still so small in the social media world, I can only imagine the actual number affected is huge. Someone's trying to collect all the data they can before Trump (hopefully) gets somewhat neutered in the coming election & they can't get away with it as easily anymore.
You're delusional if you think Liberals will stop web ID. They are the ones implementing it in the UK, Canada, Australia, and EU.
The entire turnkey-totalitarian mass surveillance apparatus America has constructed over the last few decades was expanded throughout Conservative and Liberal majorities. It's one of the few things they always agreed on, and consistently passed with little debate or fanfare.
There's a reason the Black Panthers coined the phrase "scratch a Liberal and you'll find a fascist" several decades ago; they'd already propelled the Nazis to victory in Germany decades before that.
This is an interesting pattern. Two reasonable things to get the upvote, and then a hard turn at the end.
I have also been locked out of mine for this reason