LinkedIn profile accessed during application process...

[CreditCuriosity]

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@RickNATL wrote:

Interesting @CreditCuriosity ...if you remember, please share.  

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@RickNATL It was actually BCU (Baxster Credit Union).  Just remembered.  Found it strange and been with them over a year and have one CC with them.  Was it an account review?  Maybe it was for a job but certainly strange.

[RickNATL]

@CreditCuriosity definitely don't have any accounts with them, nor applied for a job. Their LI profile is also vague...

[Anonymous]

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@RickNATL wrote:

Has a bank/CU ever access your LinkedIn Profile during an application? 

NASA FCU accessed my LinkedIn profile...first time seeing this. 

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I had read a thread or three somewhere with in the past year about how the X1 card issuer was stalking it's users on social media and I think I remember LinkedIn being mentioned as well. I believe it was reddit, but no amount of keyword searching is bringing it up.

[RickNATL]

@Anonymous I'm going to see what I can find. 

[RickNATL]

This article from 2015 is interesting...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/could-your-linkedin-profile-be-your-new-credit-score_b_7313454

[MySunrise271]

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@RickNATL wrote:

You don't have to be Premium to get the notifications. This person didn't update their privacy to not show a name.  Or it might be a default that anyone in underwriting uses.  Who knows. 

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@RickNATL thanks for the clarification.

[RickNATL]

@Windchill92 you can definitely cut down what a non-connection can see; under Settings, then "visibility"...including what can be searched or seen via a search (google, etc.) to include show/no show your photo, current or past experience, degrees, etc.

[Windchill92]

Yeah I know I can adjust my profile’s Public page (i.e. indexed by search engines) to those not logged in…

I was referring to adjusting visibility to logged-in non-connections. When cruising through the My Network page, some distant (3+ order) connections I can’t even view their profile b/c either we’re too far network-wise or they’ve disabled/limited viewing. Would be nice to limit viewing, but I know LinkedIn wouldn’t like this.

[RickNATL]

@Windchill92 I had not looked into that.

[longtimelurker]

So there is a belief that linkedin profiles are a trusted source?  Probably not for the real bad actors!