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Microsoft Affiliate Data Sharing

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What it is

LinkedIn shares your personal data with Microsoft and its affiliated companies, which can include combining data across different Microsoft products and services.

Why it matters (compliance & risk perspective)

Because LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, your professional data on LinkedIn can be shared across Microsoft's entire ecosystem — including Azure, Office 365, and Bing — significantly expanding how your data is used beyond what you might expect from a professional networking site.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your LinkedIn profile data, activity, and professional history may be shared with and combined across Microsoft's family of companies, creating a significantly broader data profile than LinkedIn alone would suggest.

What you can do

⚠️ These actions may provide transparency or partial mitigation but may not fully address the underlying issue. Effectiveness varies by jurisdiction and individual circumstances.
  • Export Your Data
    Go to LinkedIn Settings > Data Privacy > Get a copy of your data to request a full export of your personal data and understand what LinkedIn holds and shares.

How other platforms handle this

Salesforce Medium

We may share your Personal Data as follows: Service providers; Salesforce affiliates; event sponsors; partners; customers with whom you are affiliated and/or the applicable partner responsible for access to your services; contest and promotion sponsors; third-party networks and websites; Salesforce-...

OpenAI Medium

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Stripe Medium

We use Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission and the UK Data Transfer Addendum to transfer Personal Data from the EU/EEA and the UK to other countries... Stripe also participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension.

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We share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. Our affiliates include LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Ireland, LinkedIn Corporation Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), and others.

Institutional analysis (Compliance & legal intelligence)

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Arts. 13/14 require disclosure of all recipients or categories of recipients at time of data collection; sharing with Microsoft affiliates without specific disclosure of each entity and purpose may be insufficient. Art. 46 and Chapter V govern adequacy and transfer mechanisms for data flowing to LinkedIn Corporation (US). CCPA §1798.115 requires disclosure of categories of third parties with whom data is shared. FTC Act Section 5 applies to representations about data sharing that may be misleading.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has jurisdiction over unfair or deceptive data sharing practices involving affiliate data transfers under FTC Act Section 5.
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Applicable regulations

BIPA
Illinois, USA
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
COPPA
United States Federal
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
DMA
European Union
FCRA
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
GLBA
United States Federal
HIPAA
United States Federal
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
LinkedIn Privacy Policy
Entity
LinkedIn
Document last updated
April 29, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
March 15, 2026
Last verified
April 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-002589
Document ID
CA-D-00090
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
SHA-256
a6ed56ddfd95f5dcbd9a71f72d858babb9dc7b2ea953fabaf234034f1872f036
Verified
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Change verified
How to Cite
ConductAtlas Policy Archive
Entity: LinkedIn | Document: LinkedIn Privacy Policy | Record: CA-P-002589
Captured: 2026-03-15 11:50:43 UTC | SHA-256: a6ed56ddfd95f5dc…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/linkedin/linkedin-privacy-policy/microsoft-affiliate-data-sharing/
Accessed: May 4, 2026
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does LinkedIn's Microsoft Affiliate Data Sharing clause do?

Because LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, your professional data on LinkedIn can be shared across Microsoft's entire ecosystem — including Azure, Office 365, and Bing — significantly expanding how your data is used beyond what you might expect from a professional networking site.

How does this clause affect you?

Your LinkedIn profile data, activity, and professional history may be shared with and combined across Microsoft's family of companies, creating a significantly broader data profile than LinkedIn alone would suggest.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 1 platforms. See the full comparison.

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