Does LinkedIn train on your data?
LinkedIn says it uses your personal data to develop and train AI models. It grants a right to object where it relies on legitimate interests — without ever saying that training does.
"We may use your personal data to improve, develop, and provide products and Services, develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models, develop, provide, and personalize our Services, and gain insights with the help of AI, automated systems, and inferences, so that our Services can be more relevant and useful to you and others."
- 1 Jul 2026
- All member accounts
- global
- Internet Archive copy
- 6F5AB1C1…8CA7
How we read it: Corrected 19 Aug 2026, and worth saying how. The old note was right that no AI-training SETTING is named — the sentence opens on "the choices you make in your settings" and the two links beside it go to Responsible AI principles and a generative-AI explainer, not to a control. That claim was checked three times and held. But the headline claimed no CONTROL of any kind, which is broader, and the policy states one: "where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object". What it never says is which lawful basis training rests on, so whether that right reaches this use is left open. A route whose availability the document does not settle is still a route, hence D.
opt out, opt-out, object to, objection, legitimate interest, restrict, withdraw, settings
What the document does offer
- "where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object" — but the policy never says training relies on legitimate interests
- "Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data", whose examples are all about data held unlawfully or inaccurately
- withdraw consent, where consent was the basis
- opt out of survey invitations, and of certain sales-and-talent disclosures
- advertising opt-outs and communication controls, and visibility settings for posts and profile
Why none of it applies: No setting governs AI training — 22 mentions of "settings" and not one attaches to it. The objection right is the only control that could reach the training use, and the document leaves the connection unmade by never assigning a lawful basis to that purpose. Graded as a route, because a member could invoke it; graded at the top of the D band, because nothing here tells them it applies.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Contact support
- Not stated
- 55 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of LinkedIn AI training
Plan by plan, from what LinkedIn's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All member accounts
Yes, but not self-serve: LinkedIn makes you contact support.
- Use the request route LinkedIn links from "Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data" (help article a1338610), or its Data Protection Officer form at linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TSO-DPO.
- Ask LinkedIn to stop using your personal data to develop and train AI models.
The policy's examples for this right are data held unlawfully or inaccurately. It never says training rests on legitimate interests, which is the basis its objection right attaches to.
What this policy has done since we started watching
5 changes detected since 1 Jan 2023. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
- Touched jurisdiction. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched jurisdiction. Not yet reviewed by a human.
- Touched opt-outs, what's collected and sub-processors.
- MajorTouched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected, sub-processors, plan tiers and training.
- Touched what's collected. Not yet reviewed by a human.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to LinkedIn about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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