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First things first, I've updated my LI account with a new e-mail and 2FA and now my account is "Temporarily restricted". LinkedIn require me to send them either my ID card (no way) or my legal information certified by a lawyer in my country (no way). The ID seems to be "verified" (they are nothing to compare against) by Persona, a third-party that is located in US.

I kindly asked by mail to delete my account (as outlined in Article 17 of the GDPR) using a webcall or a short video with me talkie-talking about how I would like to recover my account. "Kindly asked" whether they prefer me to bring the matter to the court (Article 77 of the GDPR). Gonna see what they reply.

Anybody who went through this? Any success? Any arguments that seemed to work on the support?

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Would you prefer that anyone be able to request that any non-verified account be deleted?

I'd bet their security system saw you log in from a new IP, maybe even over VPN(?), then change the email and add 2fa, which are exactly the steps a malicious actor takes when securing an account acquired using credential stuffing. They presumably expect that your account has been compromised and are treating you as untrusted until you provide some form of validation that you are who you say you are.

I suspect that if you were to seek legal action against them they would claim that you refused to take basic actions to positively prove your identity and throw out some statistics, ie (making this up) 98% of users are able to verify using their system without any issues.

If you do seek to bring them to court under article 77, would you not then be putting into the public record a permanent association between your real identity and the account you seek to delete? Is that better than simply sending them a picture of your ID? With this in mind, is it worth the cost of legal representation to resolve the issue? I'm not sure where you're from and you don't need to answer me but I would encourage you to consider those questions when determining your path forward.

[–] sifr@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 hours ago

LinkedIn was doing this to me, too. But then I randomly was able to log on again. I wasn't able to for months and thought it was ridiculous that they were asking for my ID.

You can try logging in on an IP address you previously logged in on. Then, delete your account ofc.

[–] blinkfink182@lemm.ee 11 points 5 hours ago

Following. I'm working to get all my old accounts moved away from my gmail account so I'm guessing I'd run into this too.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Send them a fake/photoshopped ID. I did that with Facebook when they pulled that shit to try and stop me from deleting my account by locking it.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually required to comply with the GDPR.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

My experience was in the US and pre-GDPR, but how would they even verify that it's not your real ID?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

It used to be possible to give them entirely fake IDs. When I want to delete my Facebook account, there was kind of a trend around the globe to give them McLovin ID. And so did I. It worked.