LinkedIn tracks your behavior across websites outside of LinkedIn.com — including company websites and third-party sites — through its Insight Tag tracking pixel, even when you are not actively using LinkedIn.
LinkedIn monitors your activity on thousands of external websites that have installed its Insight Tag or 'Apply with LinkedIn' plugin, building a cross-site behavioral profile used for ad targeting — this happens without most users being aware that LinkedIn tracking follows them across the web.
Cross-platform context
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Compare across platforms →Your web browsing behavior across employer and corporate websites is being tracked by LinkedIn and fed back into your profile and ad targeting, extending surveillance well beyond the LinkedIn platform itself.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Off-platform tracking via pixels and plugins implicates GDPR Art. 5(1)(a) (lawfulness, fairness, transparency), Art. 6(1)(a)/(f) (lawful basis for tracking), and the EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) Art. 5(3) requiring prior consent for non-essential cookies and tracking technologies. The EDPB's Guidelines 02/2022 on dark patterns and Guidelines 08/2020 on targeting of social media users directly address this type of cross-platform tracking. In the U.S., FTC Act Section 5 and various state privacy laws (CCPA opt-out of sale/sharing, Virginia CDPA, Colorado CPA) regulate cross-context behavioral advertising.
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