I am having real problems with Linkedin – and thought you might like to be aware of them – just in case you are tempted in – or out.

But even if you are not in Linkedin you might like to note what has happened here.  This is really not the way to run an online service.

I joined a while ago, but really felt it didn’t do anything for me, so I unsubscribed.

Unfortunately I kept getting messages despite having seemingly left the system.  So then I completed a form asking me to change my wishes, saying that I no longer wanted to get any messages.

But I couldn’t get into the system at all at that point.  So I went looking for an email address of the company to write to.  I couldn’t find one on the site.  I found a postal address – in the Republic of Ireland.  So I wrote to that.

There was no reply so I called the Data Protection office, and asked what to do.  They said I had to send a registered letter to Linkedin, and give them a month, and then after that I could put in a complaint.  In other words it is now not only costing me time but also money to get out of the wretched system.

Beware!

Tony Attwood

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