In the middle of a very important OSINT investigation (not AT), LinkedIn decided to lock me out of my account and require me to provide government ID to continue.
I made a new alt account (which wanted a phone number but not an ID), but this means I no longer have access to my "official" iam-py-test LinkedIn account which I was using to contact someone for archive.today-related stuff.
The OG alt account was obviously under a fake name, so providing ID wouldn't have helped anyway, unless they don't actually validate the ID and just want it for kicks and giggles.

Requiring government ID to verify an account sounds great in theory, I guess. Or I guess it sounded good in theory to LinkedIn, since I don't think it sounds good even in theory. It also sounds like a good idea to most governments, so I guess I'm in the minority here.

Anyway, in practice processing tons of very sensitive IDs means a security breach is inevitable, and it locks out anyone who doesn't have a valid ID or whose legal name doesn't match the name they go by in professional situations.

And no, submitting an ID to a social media site isn't the same as showing an ID at a store.
Its like giving your ID to the checkout person, letting them go back to make a photocopy of it, and then mailing a photocopy of the photocopy to corporate headquarters alongside a list of everything you purchased and a picture of you taken with an electron microscope.