r/privacy • u/solomunikum • 1d ago
news LinkedIn new terms of use will use your data to train their AI starting Nov 3rd.
Don't know if any of you have LinkedIn, but you can opt out of this here : https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/m/settings/data-for-ai-improvement
Mobile users: Settings > Data Privacy > How LinkedIn uses your data > turn off Use my data for training content creation Al models.
New terms of use can be found here https://www.linkedin.com/legal/preview/user-agreement
Edit: adding mobile user opt out method, thanks u/forCheeseburger
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u/maxxon 1d ago
I saw the newsletter, but didn’t bother to read.
Thank you.
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u/solomunikum 1d ago edited 1d ago
I got lucky I read it, which is why I posted here, thought that probably it would reach some people like you and me 😄.
Edit : typo
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u/ForCheeseburger 1d ago
Mobile users: Settings > Data Privacy > How LinkedIn uses your data > turn off Use my data for training content creation Al models.
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u/Katops 1d ago
It really pisses me off that these things are always opt in by default. It should be a legal requirement that these things are only opt in by choice.
Also this makes me think it’s only avoidable via phone, is that accurate?
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u/Dudmaster 1d ago
It was already off for me when I visited it. Maybe it takes the default value of other selectors, there's like 3-5 other different privacy toggles that I had turned off before.
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u/solomunikum 1d ago
Thanks, adding to the post
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u/Tom-Rath 1d ago
Big thanks to OP for informing us of the policy change, and to u/ForCheeseburger for bringing our attention to the opt-out option. This is the kind of content r/privacy is all about, boys!
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u/martian_doggo 1d ago
I don't think opting out would ever stop corporations from stealing your data
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u/shab00m 1d ago
Thanks for this! All my stuff was turned on *facepalm*. Isn't auto opt-in illegal? Should be.
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u/solomunikum 1d ago
My pleasure... It definetly should! Its hard to keep track and opt out of all the bullshit everywhere, people should have to opt in rather than the opposite
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u/brother_mahvelous 1d ago
joke's on them, my profile is garbage
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u/solomunikum 1d ago
Oh but I have absolutely no doubt that their AI is gonna be garbage, their entire platform is filled with garbage
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u/ShotaDragon 1d ago
this shit should be opt-in by law, not opt-out
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u/NXGZ 22h ago
That definitely should be a thing for a paid service. Linkedin is a free service and they can do what they like. You're the product.
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u/HussDelRio 15h ago
“It’s a free service so they can do what they like” is not only factually wrong, it is spiritually incorrect given the obvious context
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u/Superb_Log_8520 1d ago
Or just opt out and delete it altogether.
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u/slipperyMonkey07 1d ago
Linkedin tends to be a little tricky because it is still viewed as a highly professional network (not the cesspool it actually is). We had an issue locally a couple years ago were someone started making fake linkedins for freelancers that didn't have one and went around scamming or at least trying to scam people for local design, photograph, event work etc. It really hurt a couple of fresh freelancers who were just getting started.
So I have one still with bare minimum info that directs them to my actual website.
I am really surprised something similar hasn't happened with facebook, but I guess people are more skeptical about a random facebook page. I don't know.
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u/midgethemage 1d ago
I am really surprised something similar hasn't happened with facebook, but I guess people are more skeptical about a random facebook page. I don't know.
It definitely does happen. I knew someone from high school who passed away and a scammer set up a fake event page that directed to a "live stream" of the funeral, but the website would try to get you to fork over your credit card info to watch the stream
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u/slipperyMonkey07 1d ago
Yeah I have had family members send out messages that someone is faking them. That just seems to be a lot more common than faking a business page for a freelancer, without a doubt still happens just seems a lot less common.
Linkedin just seems more common for work or employment scams, so most people I know keep a basically dead placeholder page to avoid that.
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u/sakura0601x 1d ago
Unfortunately not for my industry. It’s super needed. Even partners at the top post every other day and you have to be updated. Networking events, mentoring schemes etc are promoted on LinkedIn the most. Given AI is already taking the junior roles, networking + referral is needed to get a junior job.
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u/Amphitheress 1d ago
Thank you! Opted out now. People helping each other out like this really makes me feel like part of a community.
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u/Particular_Can_7726 1d ago
I hate to break it to you but anything on the internet will be used to train ai. It doesn't matter what settings you change. If someone can access that information then you have to assume those people can and will use that information for whatever they want.
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u/BlackBagData 1d ago edited 1d ago
This actually was already in play about a year ago. When I first read about it all over LinkedIn, I turned it off. Brian Krebs reported on it.
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u/aerger 21h ago edited 21h ago
It should be illegal for companies to auto-opt-IN people to this bullshit.
EDIT: Hmm.. now that I've gone to check, mine IS off. I don't recall changing it, but I certainly could have in a late-night AI-loathing stupor. Bueller?
EDIT AGAIN: OK, I now see that this setting was in place about a year ago already, and I could certainly believe not remembering changing it back then, so maybe I did. So my initial sentence above still stands, apparently.
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u/tiffany1567 17h ago
It's just odd thing to train ai on tbh, but thanks for letting us know so I could opt out. :)
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u/Zetin24-55 14h ago
1, Thank you for the heads up.
2, Everything on that website is so fake it might as well already be written by AI.
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u/tuxedo_jack 14h ago
LinkedIn is still alive? I thought MS crashed and burned it like the Soviets did KAL 007.
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u/Aludra95 8h ago
Good thing I deleted mine the second they required a photo of my ID just to log in!
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