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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 23:19:53 JST BrianKrebs

   If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

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

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     BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 23:09:13 JST BrianKrebs

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     The CEO of Persona responded to this post, saying they wanted to clarify about the identity verification process. They said:

     "The only subprocessors (8) used are: AWS, Confluent, DBT, ElasticSearch, GCP, MongoDB, Sigma Computing, and Snowflake

     All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing.

     All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot.

     No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is explicitly used to confirm your identity.

     The subprocessors used do NOT include Anthropic, Groqcloud, or OpenAI. The referenced subprocessor list is the superset of subprocessors used across all customers which is unfortunately misleading - we are updating our documentation to make this clearer going forward (thank you for helping us realize this). Our customers select which products are used which determines which subprocessors are used."