LinkedIn Privacy Policy

This is LinkedIn's privacy policy, which explains what personal data LinkedIn collects about you — including your professional history, location, device identifiers, messages, and behavioral data — and how it uses and shares that data with advertisers, Microsoft, and other third parties. The most important thing to know is that LinkedIn uses your personal data, including your content and activity, to train its AI and generative AI models, and you must actively opt out of this in your account settings to prevent it. You can limit how LinkedIn uses your data for AI training and targeted advertising by visiting your Privacy Settings at linkedin.com/psettings/privacy.

This document is LinkedIn's Privacy Policy (effective November 3, 2025), governing the collection, use, and sharing of personal data for all Members and Visitors to LinkedIn's services, with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company serving as data controller for EU/EEA/Switzerland/UK users and LinkedIn Corporation for all other users. The policy creates significant obligations for LinkedIn to provide transparency and user controls over data collection spanning profile data, behavioral tracking, inferred characteristics, communications content, and third-party sourced data, while users implicitly consent to the updated policy through continued use of the platform. Notable provisions include explicit authorization to use member data for AI/generative AI model training, broad collection of inferred data about users (such as salary estimates and job preferences derived without direct input), and sharing of personal data with affiliated entities including Microsoft and an extensive network of third-party partners and advertisers. The policy engages GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679), CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civil Code §1798.100 et seq.), UK GDPR, and applicable U.S. state privacy laws, with the FTC having primary enforcement authority in the U.S. and the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) serving as lead supervisory authority for EU/EEA processing; material compliance considerations include the adequacy of consent mechanisms for AI training data use, cross-border data transfer safeguards, and the breadth of legitimate interests claims used to justify processing activities.