🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-24
Reflecting on LinkedIn's rapid evolution in identity verification over the past three years.
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Three years goes by fast and one story caught my eye this week.
Are you verified?
By...
LinkedIn?
Techmeme: LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the wider web, letting sites display LinkedIn verification, starting with Adobe's new Content Authenticity app (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
By Dominic Preston / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Just two years ago, LinkedIn opened identity verification by company emails on a global basis.
Techmeme: LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
And only three years ago, LinkedIn entered the identity verification space.
Techmeme: LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with a work email address or phone number and plans to alert users if a message they receive seems suspicious (Clare Duffy/CNN)
By Clare Duffy / CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
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