I haven’t tried to log into my account for a few weeks because LinkedIn is a cesspool. When I logged in just now (with a passkey, btw), it brought me to this page.
I’ve had this account for over a decade and used it to get my current position. I don’t want to use LinkedIn, but it’s pretty much a requirement in my industry.
I’m not sure if I should cave or what. 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.
This shit should be fucking illegal, and yet, in much of the world, it’s being made enforced legislation. Fuck any company and politician that supports, funds, or operates this bullshit.
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.
through Persona
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.
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.
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”.
We could have had Sanders if people voted for him in the primary but they didn’t.
Most people that only get their news from the big 3 barely knew he existed. He was blackballed by his party. No one would cover him, even when he was the 2nd most popular.
He’s not a democrat, he’s not in the party, the primary was fine just nobody voted for him. He overwhelmingly lost to Hillary, like it wasn’t remotely close and any DNC fuckery wasn’t making any difference but everyone still believes the ruspublican misinfo about it. Registered democrats and primary voters overwhelmingly, like two to one picked Hillary. And I’m not sure how old you are but he was covered extensively in the media, there was no blackout like you’re implying, but then you seem to think he was in the dem party too so you obviously need to check your information.
I’m in my 40’s. I watched the coverage. Hillary won the vote by plenty. Because Sanders had almost no televised news or media coverage beforehand.
He had regular nationwide coverage. The real issue was the news media was almost exclusively covering anything Trump did and largely ignored the other candidates. Hillary won the primary because progressives and leftists mostly don’t vote. But democrats do, and the democrats that vote in primaries are certainly not voting for Bernie. So, had the leftists and progressives took part the primary Bernie may have won. As it is they didn’t and he didn’t, anything else is cope. America mostly thinks leftists and progressives and socialists are as bad or worse than actual nazis because bOtH sIDes and enlightened centrism and the fact that American culture is fascist as fuck in general. This is America, and it shouldn’t be surprising that Bernie didn’t even come close and yet here we are. He fucking soundly fairly lost.
This is an interesting pattern. Two reasonable things to get the upvote, and then a hard turn at the end.
I have also been locked out of mine for this reason
Third here, and I’ve personally heard of other cases as well over the past 4-ish months
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.
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
For me it was super low paying positions for companies nobody has ever heard of. They use LinkedIn to get the word out about their position hiring recruiters. If only they didn’t pay half of what I was worth by the time I started using 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.
I feel you. Unfortunately it still has the main purpose. Its really just that people treat it like a social media site. Im on it as a way to verify I worked places by my connections to people who also worked there and to get and giver references and basically to have an online resume. I do sorta like like the messaging as a way to put up a bit more of a bar to contact to me over spamming my email. One thing that kind of cracks me up but I put forward with ai is if it was so good it should theoretically make finding and filling positions almost automatic since it should be able to parse anyone who is actively looking for work.
yeah recruiter found me on linkedin and got me this job. that was 11 years ago, the market has changed a lot since the.
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.
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.
your current company sounds stupid.
No argument from me. They gave me a credit card to purchase things my team needs and I recently had to get vice president approval to spend $40 on a single mode fiber cable. It’s not a small company either. It was like five levels of approval and took two weeks just to spend $40 out of the $15k of annual discretionary spend for fast turn break/fix requirements. I dread the day a hard drive or something fails that really actually needs replaced in a timely manner.
I’d say yes, indirectly. It wasn’t through LinkedIn’s job search, but a college classmate of mine saw my LinkedIn post that my current contract was ending and messaged me on LinkedIn to come interview with his team.
I ended up staying with that company for nearly 10 years. Good people, and while the client and tech stack could be frustrating, there was also room to be creative / innovative. I voluntarily left because I thought I had something better lined up.
In another job I do think they had me do something on LinkedIn, but my point of contact actually found me on Reddit, answering programming questions and occasionally mentioning that I was unemployed. It was also a good job for a while, but I think the company let me go because I was about to get a benefits bump, though it might have been a minor clash with someone more senior regarding “genAI” outputs being introduced into the repository. They said it wasn’t anything I did, and they offered positive recommendations, but it was still surprising.
(If anyone is hiring, I am unemployed right now; DM me if you want a resume.)
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.
Has anyone actually landed a good job on LinkedIn anyway?
Yes. In my region it’s a primary tool for job hunting and recruiters.
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.
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.
No. All of my good jobs have come through excellent job placement companies.
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
Schrodinger’s data
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
I was able to verify using my Global Entry card with much of the information blacked out.
I should back up my CV.
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.
Then you must not be looking for a job to pay your bills and feed your family.
Lots of people have never gotten a job on LinkedIn. Like another poster said, unless you’re a specialist searching for a fortune 500 placement, it is not at all critical to the hiring process.
Lots of people have never gotten a job on LinkedIn
Lots of people also have. You shouldn’t have to choose between getting the best job that you’re most qualified for, and forking over your very personal information to a company with a very recent history of leaking it by the millions.
True, but to even insinuate that it is a requirement to get gainful employment, which you seem to have done, is false.
It sucks that Microsoft is turning the platform worse by the month, and that some employers fish in that pond, but it is not by any means the only way to get a great job.
Some people have the luxury of favorable job prospects, and they can be more discerning about what they put themselves through to get in front of potential employers. That isn’t something they’re doing wrong or deserve admonishment for.
It is 100% required to get the best possible job. Most people cannot afford to just ignore one of the most-used employment platforms in existence. It can cost them tens of thousands of dollars a year. Not something you can afford to skip out on in a world where wages have stagnated for the last 20 years.
I dont think its at all feasible to confirm or deny that claim. I currently have the best job I’ve ever had and I did not use LinkedIn. Could I have gotten a better one if I had used it? Impossible to say.
Also, anyone that accepts a job from somewhere other than LinkedIn, even if they are also using it, isn’t taking a worse offer; they just got the best one from somewhere else.
I currently have the best job I’ve ever had and I did not use LinkedIn
Does this really require an explanation? There are tons of potential opportunities that you are overlooking if you never even looked at LI. Would they be better? Maybe, maybe not. It’s quite possible though.
That’s just not true. If you’re in the legal profession it’s basically mandatory.
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.
¹1984 reference
Unless you’re switching jobs in the next 2 years delete it. Things don’t stay normal for longer than that
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?
