LinkedIn uses your posts, profile, and activity to train its artificial intelligence systems by default — you have to actively go into settings to stop this.
This provision means your professional history, opinions, posts, and behavioral data may be permanently incorporated into AI models, with real implications for how your data is used beyond your direct interactions with LinkedIn.
Your LinkedIn content and activity data is used to train AI systems by default, meaning your personal professional data may shape AI outputs without your explicit opt-in consent; you must proactively disable this in settings to prevent it.
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REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision engages GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests as legal basis for AI training), Art. 9 (where special category data is included in training sets), and Art. 22 (automated decision-making). The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) imposes transparency and data governance obligations on providers of general-purpose AI models trained on member data. CCPA/CPRA §1798.120 and §1798.135 require opt-out mechanisms for sharing personal information for cross-context behavioral purposes, which AI training may constitute. FTC Act Section 5 applies to representations about data use that may be deceptive. The Irish DPC is the lead EU supervisory authority; the FTC and CPPA have US jurisdiction.
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Watch LinkedInThis provision means your professional history, opinions, posts, and behavioral data may be permanently incorporated into AI models, with real implications for how your data is used beyond your direct interactions with LinkedIn.
Your LinkedIn content and activity data is used to train AI systems by default, meaning your personal professional data may shape AI outputs without your explicit opt-in consent; you must proactively disable this in settings to prevent it.
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