- LinkedIn will use customer data to train their AI models since November 2025
- US users, EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong affected
- Users will be opted by default
LinkedIn has said that it will begin using some profiles of members, publications, curriculum and public activity to train their AI models of November 3, 2025.
Users are frustrated with change, since the greatest concern is not the business networks platform, but which is enabled by default, and users have to actively opt.
Users may choose not to participate through the ‘data configuration to improve the generative AI’, however, it will only apply to the data collected after they are excluded, with the data until that point still retained within the training environment.
Stop LinkedIn using my data for AI training
“If you want to object to our processing of your data or content to train generative AI models that do not generate content or to train other AI models or automatic learning, you can send an objection through the LinkedIn data processing objection form,” LinkedIn said on a support page.
Not only the United Kingdom clients will be affected by the change: the EU, EEE, Switzerland, Canada and the Hong Kong profiles will see that their data is used to train LinkedIn’s tools.
Opting is relatively easy compared to social media environments that are too complex to which we have become accustomed. ‘Data for the generative improvement of AI’ is within ‘How LinkedIn uses its data’ in the ‘Data Privacy’ section of the configuration.
Microsoft can get out of your own default configuration because it is framed as ‘legitimate interest’ in the eyes of the law.
The data of children under 18 will be excluded from training, confirmed LinkedIn.
However, LinkedIn is not alone in his decision to train in the data of the United Kingdom users. Meta announced in September 2024 that it would begin to do the same through its Facebook and Instagram platforms, and after stopping this in response to a complaint from the Information Commissioner’s office, it has now resumed training based on user data with clearer exclusion options.
