LinkedIn set to expand AI training on user profiles - here's how to stop it using your personal data (www.techradar.com)

LinkedIn will begin using member profiles, posts, resumes and public activity to train its AI models on November 3, 2025, for users in the UK, EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada and Hong Kong. The feature is enabled by default and LinkedIn says it relies on “legitimate interest” under data protection law to process this data, though members can manually opt out. The change covers training for content-generating and other machine learning models that power features like job matching and writing suggestions; users under 18 are excluded. Crucially, opting out only stops data collected after the change takes effect—information gathered before November 3 will remain in LinkedIn’s training environment. For privacy-conscious members who don’t want their data used, LinkedIn provides a clear opt-out: go to Account Settings → How LinkedIn uses your data → Data privacy, and turn off “Data for Generative AI Improvement.” You can also file a Data Processing Objection form to push back further. The announcement follows a broader industry trend (e.g., Meta) of platforms resuming or expanding AI training using user content, raising consent and data-protection questions for the AI/ML community about model provenance, dataset auditing, and the practical limits of opt-outs once training data has already been ingested.