I never updated my email and now i always get a notification asking if my Skiff email is current but as we know, Skiff no longer does email.
I can’t update it without first verifying my Skiff email.
I can’t delete my LinkedIn account without first verifying my email.
I don’t want to submit a photo of my ID.
Is there another way?
If you live in the EU, you could try a GDPR request to delete your account and then create a new one.
Even better you can also do a GDPR to change your email. The GDPR doesn’t just cover your right to deletion but also the right to correct wrong information.
Microsoft and LinkedIn blatantly ignore the GDPR in various ways, so while you’re technically correct, you may need to win several court battles to get that fixed. On the upside, it may bring in some extra cash when Microsoft refuses to update your profile despite of a judge’s order, but on the downside this process can take years.
In one recent case, Microsoft and LinkedIn decided that placing a tracking cookie before hitting “accept” on a cookie prompt was worth three years of court battles and €60000 + lawyer fees to ignore the judge’s orders. And that’s a case they lost, they’ve won cases as well. I imagine “we couldn’t verify ownership of the account through the email address” will make it quite far in court unless you send over a lot of personal documentation to prove your ownership of the account.