When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name : Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California. LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned. […] They use uploaded images of identity documents — that’s my passport — to train their AI. […] And look at who’s doing “Data Extraction and Analysis” — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Groqcloud. Three AI companies are processing your passport and selfie data.

Anthropic has concerns over two issues that it isn’t willing to drop, the source said: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens.