- Your LinkedIn data will soon be used to train AI unless you manually unsubscribe
- Privacy-conscious members can prevent AI training by changing data settings
- Default LinkedIn feature raises concerns about consent and data protection
In September 2025, LinkedIn announced plans to begin using member profiles, posts, resumes, and public activities to train its artificial intelligence models.
The professional networking platform and job site has confirmed that data from members in the United Kingdom, European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong will be included.
These changes will come into effect on November 3, 2025 – and will be enabled by defaultso what can you do?
Unsubscribe…now
If you don’t want your data used – and why would you? – you will have to unsubscribe manually.
The LinkedIn support page explains:
“For members of the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong, on November 3, 2025, we will begin using certain data from members of these regions to train content-generating AI models… We rely on legitimate interest to process your data for this purpose. You can opt-out at any time in your settings if you prefer not to have your data used in this way.”
You can learn more about what LinkedIn plans to do in this FAQ.
The company’s dependence on legitimate interest allows it to automatically enable the functionality under data protection law, provided that members can opt out.
The setting you need to do this, called Data for improving generative AIis located under Data Privacy In How LinkedIn uses your data in the account settings. Click here.
Opting out will prevent LinkedIn from using data collected after the change takes effect, but any information collected before then will remain in the AI training environment, so you should act now to prevent this from happening.
If you wish to take your objection further, you can do so via LinkedIn. Data processing opposition form.
The platform notes that this option covers data used to train both content generation models and other machine learning models.
LinkedIn says users under 18 will be excluded from AI training.
The change is part of Microsoft-owned LinkedIn’s plan to integrate AI into features like job matching and writing suggestions.
This approach follows a broader trend among social media platforms. Meta made a similar move last year for Facebook and Instagram, resuming the practice after regulatory review.
If you are concerned about your privacy, checking and changing settings before November 3, 2025 is the best way to keep your data out of AI training systems.
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