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by MattDaEskimo5 hours ago |
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upvoteby shimman5 hours ago|
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Organize in your country and advocate for data deletion jubilees, organize in your country to champion new taxes against US digital services, organize in your country to advocate for homegrown solutions over US tech.

If you aren't actively organizing you aren't going to accomplish anything.

Remember that people power trumps monetary power, but you have to commit for people power to work.

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upvoteby giancarlostoro5 hours ago|
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> advocate for homegrown solutions over US tech.

Some sweet irony about this btw.

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upvoteby shimman4 hours ago|
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Why? Every country on Earth is capable of creating and maintaining software. There is nothing unique about America or Silicon Valley (outside of the massive amounts of corporate welfare), devs can be found anywhere and who better to write software for local citizens than the local citizens themselves?

We know how useful open source software is, there's no reason why this can't be replicated across the planet.

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upvoteby giancarlostoro3 hours ago|
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Not because they cannot do it, but because why they're doing it, which in turn becomes what they're doing. America is being perceived as isolationist, so countries solve that by becoming isolationist about what software they use, whether its open source or not is kind of irrelevant, though in several cases the software will primarily be focused on the countries own language.

The better alternative in my eyes is to contribute to existing open source, and only if the US becomes hostile against this, fork said code and move on.

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upvoteby drac895 hours ago|
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From the blog post I've recently read; https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio...

1. Request your data. Email idv-privacy@withpersona.com or privacy@withpersona.com. Under GDPR, they have 30 days to respond.

2. Request deletion. The verification is done. LinkedIn already has the result. There is no reason for Persona to keep your passport scan and facial geometry on their servers. Ask them to delete it.

3. Contact their DPO. dpo@withpersona.com — that’s their Data Protection Officer. If you want to object to them using your documents as AI training data under “legitimate interests,” this is where you do it.

4. Think twice before verifying. That blue badge might not be worth what you’re trading for it. A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever.

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upvoteby hbcondo7145 hours ago|
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As heavily discussed here 3 days ago (Persona is the same company LinkedIn uses for their ID verification process):

I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245

1.4K+ points, 490+ comments

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