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Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

Unfortunately sometimes it’s too late. Any platform can lock your account and keep your data until you unlock it and GDPR and similar do not protect against it. That’s what Twitter and LinkedIn started to do - require verification and no way to delete your account if you decline.

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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Thanks to GDPR you can email them to have your data deleted though.

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- Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How do you verify it’s you? Just email address seems weird.
  
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Should be enough given it’s the same address the account was registered with.
    
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    drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ve tried emailing LinkedIn with no response. Apparently this is not covered by gdpr because you still need to confirm identity
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

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- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can’t do anything with a locked account. Just a screen to do a web cam verification.
  
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  - 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ah you meant like that…
    
    Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.
    
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