LinkedIn shares your personal data with Microsoft and its affiliated companies, which can include combining data across different Microsoft products and services.
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This provision establishes the institutional mechanism for intra-corporate data distribution across LinkedIn's affiliated corporate structure. The authorization to combine data across services expands the datasets available for service development and personalization across the LinkedIn service portfolio.
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.
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We may share your personal information with our affiliates, meaning entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with Consensys. We also share information with service providers who assist in operating our services, subject to confidentiality obligations.
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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.— Excerpt from LinkedIn's LinkedIn Privacy Policy
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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This provision establishes the institutional mechanism for intra-corporate data distribution across LinkedIn's affiliated corporate structure. The authorization to combine data across services expands the datasets available for service development and personalization across the LinkedIn service portfolio.
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.
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