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.

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// THE 17 COMPANIES THAT TOUCH YOUR FACE

Persona maintains a public list of subprocessors — third-party companies that process your personal data on their

behalf. Here's the ful list:
COMPANY WHAT THEY DO WITH YOUR DATA LocATION
Anthropic Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA
Openal Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA
Grogeloud Data Extraction and Analysis San Jose, USA
AWS Infrastructure, Image Processing Houston, USA
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service Mountain View, USA
Resistant Al Document Analysis New York, USA
FingerprintJs Device Analysis Chicago, USA
MongoDB Database Services New York, USA
Snowflake Database Services Bozeman, USA
Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine Mountain View, USA
Confluent ETL Services Mountain View, USA
DBT ETL Services Philadelphia, USA
Sigma Computing Data Analytics. San Francisco, USA
Tableau Data Analytics. Seattle, USA
Stripe Gredit Card Processing South San Francisco, USA
Twilio Communication APs (Phone, SMS) Denver, USA
Persona Identities Canada Gustomer Support & Development Toronto, Canada
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