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The provision establishes that LinkedIn's inference practices—deriving sensitive attributes from provided and observed data—constitute data processing activities governed by the privacy policy, which determines how inferred data may be used, retained, and disclosed.
Interpretive note: The specific legal basis LinkedIn asserts for processing inferred political opinions under GDPR Article 9, and the extent to which such inferences are used in advertising or automated decision-making, is not fully detailed in the policy text reviewed.
Users operate under terms that authorize LinkedIn to generate derived demographic and political attribute data from their activity and information, and to treat these inferences with the same regulatory and operational status as directly-provided personal data.
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"We infer your likely age range, gender, and other information about you based on information you have provided and other data we have about you. We may also infer political opinions and other sensitive data about you, and we treat this as personal data about you.— Excerpt from LinkedIn's LinkedIn Privacy Policy
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The provision establishes that LinkedIn's inference practices—deriving sensitive attributes from provided and observed data—constitute data processing activities governed by the privacy policy, which determines how inferred data may be used, retained, and disclosed.
Users operate under terms that authorize LinkedIn to generate derived demographic and political attribute data from their activity and information, and to treat these inferences with the same regulatory and operational status as directly-provided personal data.
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