Mashable: Verified LinkedIn users’ data is shared in shocking ways, report claims
One observant anonymous user is warning other LinkedIn users that the Microsoft-owned social network for professionals utilizes a third-party verification service that, in turn, shares users’ data with other companies.
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According to rogi, what concerned him was exactly what Persona could do with his data. Persona accessed rogi’s full name, passport photo, selfie, facial biometric data, NFC chip data (or the info stored on the chip inside his passport), his nationality, sex, birthday, age, email, phone number, physical address, IP address, geolocation, device type, MAC address, browser, OS version, and language.
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