"LinkedIn announced changes to its data use terms several weeks ago, noting that as of November 3 it would start sucking up data from "members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong" to train AI models. While not mentioned by name in the notice, scrolling down the update page to the section on the UK indicates that previous exceptions which rendered Blighty safe from LinkedIn scraping are being eliminated too."
"As for what's up for harvesting, it's pretty much everything on LinkedIn, the update noted - profile details and public posts are all fair game. LinkedIn did take pains to spell out in multiple places that private messages aren't included in the data it'll be extracting, and with good reason. The company was sued in early 2025 for allegedly using private messages for AI training and it doesn't want a repeat of that mess, even if the plaintiff withdrew the suit shortly after filing."
LinkedIn will begin collecting profile details, public posts, feed activity, and ad engagement from members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, the UK, Canada, and Hong Kong starting November 3, 2025. Private messages are excluded from the data collection. LinkedIn will share additional scraped data with Microsoft and related affiliates to enable more personalized ads and to support AI model training. The policy change removes prior regional exceptions that had shielded some users. Users who do not want their data used for AI training or advertising by Microsoft have a limited opt-out window of one week.
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