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I verified my LinkedIn Identity. Here's what I actually handed over. (thelocalstack.eu)
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If we have any real plan for data sovereignty, the time to start implementing it is before I was born.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

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.