LinkedIn Locked Me Out Until I Submit to Biometric ID Verification via Persona
They don’t offer any alternative method—no email verification, no manual review, nothing. It’s either:
Submit to biometric facial recognition, or
Lose access to your account (and in many cases, your professional network).
I live in the U.S. (Indiana/Texas) and looked into the legal implications. There are some laws around biometric data, but no practical way to opt out or demand alternatives.
This seems like a huge overreach for a professional networking platform. Not everyone is comfortable handing over a face scan and ID to a third-party vendor just to keep using their profile. Especially when the reason for flagging is unclear, and there's no appeal path.
Has anyone else run into this? Are other platforms doing this now too? I'd love to hear if there's any way around this or if anyone's fought it successfully.