This is the second person I've seen (without even trying) in a week running into this. Since Lemmy is still so small in the social media world, I can only imagine the actual number affected is huge. Someone's trying to collect all the data they can before Trump (hopefully) gets somewhat neutered in the coming election & they can't get away with it as easily anymore.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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You're delusional if you think Liberals will stop web ID. They are the ones implementing it in the UK, Canada, Australia, and EU.
The entire turnkey-totalitarian mass surveillance apparatus America has constructed over the last few decades was expanded throughout Conservative and Liberal majorities. It's one of the few things they always agreed on, and consistently passed with little debate or fanfare.
There's a reason the Black Panthers coined the phrase "scratch a Liberal and you'll find a fascist" several decades ago; they'd already propelled the Nazis to victory in Germany decades before that.
The US Republicans are so bad, people forget that the Democratic party is also pretty shitty. We could have had Sanders as a president in 2016 if the DNC didn't refuse it and shove Hillary down our throats. The DNC doesn't want to be very "left".
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This is an interesting pattern. Two reasonable things to get the upvote, and then a hard turn at the end.
Third here, and I've personally heard of other cases as well over the past 4-ish months
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I read the privacy policy for Persona's ID verification and it states that the data is immediately destroyed after verification, or held for three years.
So which is it?
Neither. It's never destroyed because you can't prove otherwise. At best it's given to authorities within three years to free up storage space.
It's both destroyed and exists, until a data breach happens, in which case it definitely exists
Deleted is set to true in that record.
The classic "Mark as deleted"
If it was destroyed after verification they wouldn't have been able to leak the personal IDs of millions of users just a few months ago.
Its deleted in your country but store safely offshore
My account is still locked and I can't delete it. I even filed a GDPR report but apparently GDPR doesn't apply if it's a "security requirement". So note if you want to bypass GDPR and capitalize on personally identifiable information (PII) all you have to do is pretend it's for security because literally everything can be used for security in some form.
Security theater.
I had the same happen to me
There was no suspicious activity or unauthorized access, they just want to steal your personal information, is all
That this is legal in any way shape or form, anywhere, is just insane. The LinkedIn CEO should be jailed over this, it's the only way they learn to not be criminals
The LinkedIn CEO should be jailed over this, it’s the only way they learn to not be criminals
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are fully on board with this shit. That leaves it to the rest of us to change their minds but we've seen what happens when someone takes a stand against morally destitute CEOs.
Has anyone actually landed a good job on LinkedIn anyway?
In seriously asking. The last time I checked the app was full of low-ball offers, bots, and a lot of applications that the companoes completely ignore if you apply on LinkedIn.
Yes, plenty of people do. Unfortunately for me, the original promise of LinkedIn has been lost. Originally it was meant to help people maintain their professional network by not losing track of people they had worked with in the past. Over the years, it has turned into nothing more than a place for recruiters to fish in. It feels like a dating site for workers and recruiters to find each other.
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Last year a company shot me a message and now I work there. It was excellent timing on their part, because I was very unhappy with my employer back then.
I feel like LinkedIn has changed a lot since then, though. The platform is overrun with AI slop and I'm seriously thinking about deleting my account.
LinkedIn got me into my current company about four years ago. I've snagged one or two interviews with it since then.
In my experience, it's only really used by recruiters for Fortune 500 companies looking for specialists.
A frustration of mine is that hr at my current company will not allow hiring of a candidate that doesn’t have a LinkedIn account. I’ve had to ask a couple people that wanted to work on my team to create LinkedIn accounts otherwise I wouldn’t be able to hire them.
I got my current job by working for a contracting agency and getting placed at various firms. Then at this one my boss asked me to work for them.
It’s mostly spam these days and fake postings for ghost jobs, and then bots auto applying to those postings. I would say 5 percent or maybe 10 at most are legit. I have found a few jobs through there.
However since ChatGPT became a thing they offer near minimum wage now for senior engineers in a lot of places, salaries are half at best of what they were in 2024.
yeah recruiter found me on linkedin and got me this job. that was 11 years ago, the market has changed a lot since the.
Well, I was offered the job of a lifetime - an aesthetician offered me a unique chance to be their downline sales member for Rodan and Fields.
Given that you are seriously asking, the only things I have ever been offered on LinkedIn are MLM crap and people trying to sell me their investment products
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through Persona
Happened to me like a year ago, i caved and did the persona thing and they still after i gave all the info they wanted locked my account. Now i have no way of making an account or they will just lock that one too. I really hate linkedin and how it's trying to have the monopoly on job seeking networks...
My spouse had a similar experience. She had an old account she couldn't access so she tried to create a new one with a different email, but they blocked that. She did the whole Persona thing and they just said no. She contacted their support and they said they couldn't do anything. So now she has no LinkedIn account and can't get one.
Thin doesn't seem like an essential service that needs my ID for anything.
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My suggestions would be to either block Linkedin at firewall level, or to cave in but to plaster everywhere you can, including within Linkedin, their datahoarding/telescreen¹ attempt travestied as privacy. Or to block it and still plaster the situation everywhere.
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Same here. Also with enabled 2FA. I suspect this is because I'm using a VPN.
I certainly will not give them my ID. luckily it is not that high of importance to me but still, there are contacts that I would like to to be able access.
Are there maybe other ways to proof proper ownership of the account?
I'd see if you could request deletion of the account and come back in a few years and create a new one. But there are no guarantees they won't just require it for all new accounts.
Or just see how it goes without having one. Maybe create and maintain a mastodon account on an industry-relevant instance.
I had to threaten a GDPR lawsuit on them to do this. I got locked out the same way a year ago and was going to delete my account anyway. Sent a trackable letter to their HQ in Europe and a follow up after not hearing back, eventually my account was removed.
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Unless you're switching jobs in the next 2 years delete it. Things don't stay normal for longer than that
Federated alternative to LinkedIn when?
Can you reach out to their support?
If you want to waste your time, yea. I don't remember the last time I got ACTUAL support from a company.
I did from Apple a few years ago after I bought a new Mac mini, but there was some issue with my Apple Care subscription and they helped me to sort it out. I actually had to talk to a real person on the phone from another country (Ireland) because they needed to escalate. But my issue was resolved and they were very helpful.
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I did this with discover. After 3 weeks of calling and running up the chain they finally "realized" that I could add my phone number to verify (even though I'd been using email as my primary). Haven't had to mess with it since.
I was able to verify using my Global Entry card with much of the information blacked out.
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