- LinkedIn will use customer data to train its AI models from November 2025
- Use, EEE, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong users are all affected
- Users will be opted by default
LinkedIn said that he would start using certain members of members, publications, curriculum vitae and public activity to train his AI models from November 3, 2025.
Users are rightly frustrated by change, with the greatest concern that the commercial networking platform will not do so, but that it is configured to be activated by default, users should rather withdraw.
Users can choose to withdraw via the “Data for the improvement of generative AI” setting, but they will only apply to data collected after their output, with data to this point still kept in the training environment.
Stop LinkedIn using my data for IA training
“If you wish to oppose our processing of your data or content for the training of generative AI models which do not generate content or for the training of other registration or automatic learning models, you can submit an objection via the LinkedIn data processing form”, noted LinkedIn in an assistance page.
It is not only British customers who will be affected by the change – the profiles of the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong will see all their data used to form the tools of LinkedIn AI.
The withdrawal is relatively easy compared to the too complex social networking parameters to which we have used. “Data for generative IA improvement” is in “How LinkedIn uses your data” in the “Data Confidentiality” section of the parameters.
Microsoft is able to get away with the activation of this default parameter because it is considered a “legitimate interest” in the eyes of the law.
The data for under -18s will be excluded from the training, confirmed Linkedin.
Linkedin is not the only one in his decision to train on the data of British users. Meta announced in September 2024 that he would begin to do the same via his Facebook and Instagram platforms, and after having managed to oppose in response to an office complaint of the Information Commissioner, he has now included training based on user data with clearer withdrawal options.
