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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Protect us, our business, our users, and others, for example to enforce our terms of service, prevent spam or other unwanted communications, and investigate or protect against fraud
we may use, retain or share information with law enforcement or others in circumstances where a person's vital interests require protection, such as in the case of emergencies.
we may share data between our affiliates for the safety and security of our users and may take necessary actions if we believe you have violated these Terms, including banning you from our Services and/or our affiliates' services...
"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 Privacy Policy
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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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