LinkedIn uses your profile, behavioral data, and inferences about your income and interests to target you with ads on and off LinkedIn, including through third-party advertising partners.
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The clause establishes the operational framework for LinkedIn's targeted advertising system by explicitly authorizing the collection and use of both explicit member data and inferred attributes to enable personalized ad delivery across a multi-platform ecosystem, which constitutes a primary monetization mechanism for the service.
LinkedIn infers sensitive attributes like your likely income and education level from your profile and activity data, and uses these inferences — along with tracking pixels on third-party sites — to target you with ads across the internet.
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"We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined: Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers; Member-provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, title and industry); Information inferred from data (e.g., based on your job title or your interests and inferences about your income, education levels).Excerpt from LinkedIn's Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes the operational framework for LinkedIn's targeted advertising system by explicitly authorizing the collection and use of both explicit member data and inferred attributes to enable personalized ad delivery across a multi-platform ecosystem, which constitutes a primary monetization mechanism for the service.
LinkedIn infers sensitive attributes like your likely income and education level from your profile and activity data, and uses these inferences — along with tracking pixels on third-party sites — to target you with ads across the internet.
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