Received the above notice as I decided to login to my LinkedIn account yesterday after many months. Sounds similar to what I saw on my X account 3.5 years ago here, except that the account wasn't actually compromised.
This is the second time a web2 social media platform that asked me for KYC. The first was Facebook after testing this out and that was the only thing I ever did over there that got me banned. This will not be the last one as nearly every country in the world have introduced or are working on their dystopian "online safety" bills that mandates platforms to collect KYC on their users one way or another, and it is no exception over here where the next Hivefest will be held.
For obvious reasons, I will not provide any of this to random sites like these and will not use them if ever asked. Not only we have no clue what they actually do with it (besides what you would expect), they can and will be stolen as they have been in the past.
On the tea app
As for my take on this category of apps in general, please refer to this comment as I will not repeat them here.
This is one of those (non-)hacks that have been in the news last week as millions of photo IDs and DMs of their users were left in the open in an unsecured database. Not only have they doxxed their own users and allowed them to doxx others without their consent, they lied claiming that their KYC info will not be retained as per their privacy policy:
During the registration process, users are required to submit a selfie photo for verification purposes. This photo is securely processed and stored only temporarily and will be deleted immediately following the completion of the verification process.
As more apps are being vibe coded to comply with these ridiculous laws, it is very likely we will see more of this happening over time especially due to the nature of these kinds of apps that care less about security than so-called regulated CEXes which get pwned anyways.
You know where this is going
Combining all this and the fact that more and more companies and governments around the world are pushing their digitization agenda and forcing everyone to install their apps on "approved devices" shows it has nothing to do with safety as they call it, and more to do with surveillance and censorship that ironically makes everyone less safe.