These rights give you meaningful control over your personal data, though the scope and enforceability of these rights depends on where you live.
Consumer impact
LinkedIn collects extensive personal data ā including your professional history, activity patterns, device information, and inferred attributes ā and uses it for targeted advertising, AI model training, and sharing with recruiters, business partners, and affiliates. Your data may persist in some form even after account deletion, and third parties can contribute data about you to LinkedIn's systems without your direct knowledge. You can manage many privacy preferences by visiting https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/privacy to review and adjust your data sharing and ad settings.
What you can do
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Export Your Data
Submit a data access, deletion, or portability request via LinkedIn's privacy request portal at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPR. Select the type of request and follow the verification steps.
Delete Your Data
To request deletion of your personal data, go to https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPR and select 'Delete my data'. LinkedIn will verify your identity before processing the request.
Applicable agencies
State AG
California's Attorney General enforces CCPA/CPRA data subject rights including access, deletion, and opt-out of data sale.