Privacy

Security theater.

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 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.

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.

Deleted is set to true in that record.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

yeah recruiter found me on linkedin and got me this job. that was 11 years ago, the market has changed a lot since the.

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.)

Has anyone actually landed a good job on LinkedIn anyway?

Yes. In my region it's a primary tool for job hunting and recruiters.

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.

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.

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.