LinkedIn shares your profile information — including your name, employer, job title, and how you engage with content — with advertising partners and networks to enable targeted advertising on and off LinkedIn.
Professional data you provide to LinkedIn — job title, employer, industry, and engagement behavior — is shared with third-party advertising companies who use it to build targeting profiles, meaning your LinkedIn identity is used commercially by companies you have never interacted with.
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Compare across platforms →Your professional identity and engagement behavior are shared with an extensive network of advertising partners who use this data to target you with ads, potentially in contexts far removed from LinkedIn.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Third-party advertising data sharing implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)/(f) for lawful basis, Art. 26 (joint controllership with ad partners), and GDPR Art. 44-47 for international transfers to non-EU advertising networks. The Irish DPC's LinkedIn fine (October 2024, €310M) was specifically for advertising data processing without adequate lawful basis. CCPA/CPRA §1798.120 grants California consumers the right to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
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