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I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. (thelocalstack.eu)
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Thought this belonged here. The not so comfortable truth about verifying your identity to a company that purchases their verification services from a third party.

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[–] Greg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I hoped that XING would be it (sans decentralized) but it is totally dead. And also I assume that without heavy sponsorship it is impossible to have this kind of a platform to exist.

Also LinkedIn is only useful if you are a heavy sales navigator user.