Have you had your identity verified on LinkedIn to get the blue tick? If so, I’m afraid I have to tell you that your passport, ID and biometric data are now stored with ‘Persona Identities’, a company funded by Peter Thiel, which has already been cross-referenced with numerous US government databases. This data is shared with any US authorities at their discretion.
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Eddie Palmieri:
🎵 La voz del caribe
#EddiePalmieri
https://open.spotify.com/track/0pSQYPrILz5ieUEtXwQOeu
I’ve broken my dry spell of no fire alarms at conference hotels! I was starting to think I’d never have to prioritize passport over pants in a mad dash to the stairs again!
🌟 Why too much phosphorus in America’s farmland is polluting the country’s water
https://theconversation.com/why-too-much-phosphorus-in-americas-farmland-is-polluting-the-countrys-water-273326
"Citizen and professional journalists more motivated than Donald Trump lackeys at the Department of Justice continue to uncover disturbing items in Epstein files released to date. Among them, photographs that the DOJ should have been redacted but missed, “including pictures of a young girl kissing Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek and personal data on passports and drivers’ licenses,” CNN found."
Don’t Look Away – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/01/dont-look-away-3/
Just verify¹ your account on some platform? And never checked what happens to your data?
I found a blogpost that read (and researched) the fine print we are too lazy to read: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
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Die Euroskeptiker von früher wollen Europa nun von innen heraus verändern. So sind sie zu einer Stimme im europäischen Diskurs geworden. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/die-euroskeptiker-von-frueher-wollen-europa-nu…
Russia tightens passport rules for children in occupied Ukraine, complicating escape, activists say: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/russia-tightens-passport-rules-for.html
Die Essays von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zu den politischen Entwicklungen von der konstitutionellen zur absoluten Demokraite in den USA und in Europa (aus De Morgen 2024 und 2025) in deutschsprachiger Übersetzungen:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/