LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
Same bullshit happened to me when they froze my account after their AI bot flagged me with on false positive for “discrimination” (I’d posted a job with a legitimate language requirement).
They then made me go through some humiliating ritual of having to write them an email with a written promise that I wouldn’t break any discrimination rules, which I hadn’t done to begin with, but the support clown wouldn’t reinstate my account until I’d done their specified grovelling.