@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack just saw this as well... name looked familiar.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed

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Not only is it amazing that you shared your experience, but is a well written article. People take for granted what they now know after reading something like without having to go through it themselves.

Thanks for sharing.

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack relayé... Sur LinkedIn

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack I could also recommend reading this blog post. It gives some technical and very interesting information. https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/

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LinkedIn is awful. I had to verify my ID and I really really didn't want to. But it's a requirement in the job market. There's no option otherwise.

And it's like, ok you "can't discriminate based on race sex etc" when hiring but you can demand to see people's linkedin which is the same thing?

So awful.

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack oooof this is scary!

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack @doekman @FurryBeta @knowprose @annehargreaves

In Europe there is an alternative that verifies your ID better *and* is data minimizing.

Most European ID-Cards have a cryptographic chip that enables verification of identity via a NFC-coupled Smartphone-App.

What is special: You can select in the App which info to give away. Only age, only lastname, only address, etc.

Identity provider is the state and in Germany the App is open source, called #AusweisApp.

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack This is unfortunately true for just about anything one signs up for, though the invasiveness may not be as severe as your example. Sign up for just about any account, and if you dig into to the ToS, PP, and other docs, you’ll see data sharing. Often enough, there are multiple ToD and PP involved, because one company handles sign on, another handles back end, another something else. It’s utterly ridiculous

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack Posted to LinkedIn.

Because. 🙃

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack Viewed under the light that ICE makes extensive use of facial recognition apps, this is deeply troubling.

@Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack Thanks for this. It's as depressing as it unsurprising. A useful public service.

@Em0nM4stodon Peter Thiel. Any guarantee the data in Persona doesn't get passed to Palantir?

@Em0nM4stodon One slight comment:

by any future president

I would include the present predident in this.