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Sensitive demographic and financial inferences are derived from profile data and used to target advertising, meaning users may be profiled beyond what they explicitly disclosed.
Interpretive note: The excerpt names these inferences as a data category but is truncated with an ellipsis and does not in the quoted text explicitly state the purpose (advertising) for which these inferences are used. The clause name and type field indicate advertising use, but that purpose is not fully established by the quoted language alone. Confidence is medium because the advertising use is inferred from context rather than explicit in the excerpt.
By using LinkedIn, you accept that LinkedIn may infer characteristics such as your industry, seniority, compensation bracket, age, and gender from your data and use those inferences in advertising.
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Sensitive demographic and financial inferences are derived from profile data and used to target advertising, meaning users may be profiled beyond what they explicitly disclosed.
By using LinkedIn, you accept that LinkedIn may infer characteristics such as your industry, seniority, compensation bracket, age, and gender from your data and use those inferences in advertising.
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