I’m straight-up not comfortable uploading a government document online. Bite my shiny metal toosh, Microsoft.
The amount of jobs I’ve gotten through LinkedIn: 0.
The number of people I have found from highschool/college/random person on the street who I can’t find in Facebook: waaaaaay too many. If it didn’t tell you who was looking for you, linkedin would be far creepier of a stalking tool. I mean, shit I’ve found people I’ve only seen a picture of. Now I know where they work, where they used to work, and went to school. By extension I now also know where they likely used to live and at least the general area that they live now (provided they don’t work remote that is).
The more I think about LinkedIn, the more I want to remove my profile.
The #1 feature they won’t add: I hated this job.
They always show industry jobs and suggested connections from all your jobs…if they were human and not interested in maximizing data suck they would have talked to 3-5 users out of their millions and realized people have bad job experiences and want to delete the memory, not be reprompted about it for eternity. Also, even when you decline a suggested person, imagine your worst coworker, they suggest them again later. Fucking stupid robot company
For a grad school project last year, I proposed a Fediverse version of LinkedIn, with the ability to find and hire people for projects.
It’s just in the proposition stage, but I got pretty excited about it. If allowed the opportunity, I might work on it as my capstone project early next year.
I have a blackened image (only photo and name visible) around for cases like this.
I was about to upload that. Then turns out they use a third party to process this…
During the sign-up process, they referenced even more third parties… so I gave up.
I consent to Persona collecting, using, and utilizing its third-party service providers to process my biometric information in order to verify my identity for fraud prevention, in accordance with the Persona’s Privacy Policy. Your biometric information will be stored for no longer than 6 months.
Lots of answers here but here’s my experience: I was met with the same screen and there was no way in hell I would send any picture of my id over the internet. So I had to create a Twitter account to contact LinkedIn support (yeah they only have support on Twitter…) and I explained to them the situation and they were able to bring my account back up. I suggest you try that route also.
I am fascinated by this. I guess when there is no universally recognized ID it feels weirder?
I mean, sure, by all means withhold info from social media platforms, but if it’s one where you’re going to have your real name and your whole-ass work history on public display, surely verifying your ID is trivial? You could absolutely google the info in a LinkedIn page and find a bunch of additional info anyway.
I get it intellectually, it’s a taboo now, just like it’s a taboo to have people find out your address or phone number when it used to be publicly listed until a few years ago. It’s just weird that it’s still a taboo for the services where verifying your ID is presumably a feature, not a bug.
Its one of the challenges that seriously doesn’t seem to have an easy solution. Like the closest I can think of is a centralized authority that the service can send a identity verification request to that, then the user can sign into the centralized authority and confirm “yes I am the person you requested to verify”
This would also help with annoying employment verification where I have to bring every document needed to steal my identity to my new employer for them to scan and digitally store indefinitely then return said documents to my safe
