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.
LinkedIn makes inferences about sensitive financial and personal characteristics — like estimated income and education level — to target advertising, and this profiling happens even on third-party websites through advertising technology.
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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REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests for advertising) was specifically found unlawful in the Irish DPC's €310M enforcement action against LinkedIn in October 2024 — LinkedIn was found to have incorrectly relied on legitimate interests and contract as legal bases for behavioral advertising. GDPR Art. 22 applies where inferred attributes are used in automated profiling with significant effects. The ePrivacy Directive requires consent for advertising cookies. CCPA/CPRA §1798.120 and §1798.135 require opt-out rights for sharing/selling data for behavioral advertising.
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Watch LinkedInLinkedIn makes inferences about sensitive financial and personal characteristics — like estimated income and education level — to target advertising, and this profiling happens even on third-party websites through advertising technology.
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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