Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Has anyone successfully rinsed LinkedIn out of their online hair?
I joined about 15 years ago to manage the company account which somebody had set up with badly worded text, etc. I subsequently had to rebuild it twice as LinkedIn reset stuff and used it to advertise vacancies and post company news; when my company went bust (parent company Carillion's spectacular nose dive) I changed my account to my personal gmail (secondary email account), posted a company farewell, and thought I might find a job... Having eventually taken my pension I wanted to close it and went round in ever more frustrating circles. Three years later I tried again (in Jan I think), my entry is still there, my gmail still gets bombarded daily by utterly pointless linkedin emails and my password doesn't work because I closed my account. Doh! I think Ricky Gervais might have a pithy five lettered single syllable plural descriptor for them.
All I actually want to do is contact somebody and tell them to delete my account completely but I don't seem to be able to that without logging back in...
Is there a good online comms authority who can read the riot act at them in the UK? Any suggestions gratefully received....
Years ago I inadvertently got my email registered with Who Remembers Me? (actually a colleague invited me and I stupidly had a look at the site to decide I wasn't remotely interested) and had an equally difficult time getting out of it and was bombarded by messages - except I was able to email them and on receipt of a "you need to register to unregister yourself" reply, I lost my temper and fired off a cease and desist or face the full might of whatever body governed such stuff - whoever that was 25 years ago. I didn't know that email replies could convey stammering, but the "done and sorry" response seemed to do so...
Thanks folks!
One option may be to invoke 'Data Protection' - they should only keep your details under specific reasons, and if you've closed your account there are very few of those.
If you try the company Data Protection Officer (all operating in the UK have to have one) and get nowhere, then the Information Commissioner should take an interest
