LinkedIn considers Microsoft and all of its subsidiaries — including GitHub — to be its 'affiliates,' meaning your LinkedIn data can be shared across this entire corporate family under LinkedIn's privacy and data policies.
Your LinkedIn profile data, professional history, and content may be shared with Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries including GitHub, Azure, and other Microsoft products as part of LinkedIn's affiliate data-sharing practices disclosed in the Privacy Policy.
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Compare across platforms →The explicit inclusion of Microsoft Corporation and GitHub as affiliates with potential access to LinkedIn data significantly expands the data-sharing ecosystem beyond what most users expect when joining a professional networking platform.
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Arts. 26 (joint controllers) and 28 (processors) and Art. 46 (international transfers) apply to data sharing between LinkedIn Ireland and Microsoft Corporation (US-based). The EU-US Data Privacy Framework adequacy decision provides a transfer mechanism, but LinkedIn/Microsoft must maintain DPF certification. CCPA §1798.140 definitions of 'sharing' personal information apply to cross-affiliate data flows. The Microsoft-LinkedIn merger was approved by EU competition authorities with data-sharing conditions (Case M.8124) that remain relevant. Enforcement: Ireland DPC, EU Commission (DPF), FTC (DPF enforcement), California AG. 2)
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