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LinkedIn is preparing to switch on generative-AI training that draws from European members’ data, setting November 3, 2025 as the go-live date. The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training—promising that private messages are excluded. The change applies across the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

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[–] misk@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training—promising that private messages are excluded.

Is opt-in by default even legal? How are they getting away with this? LinkedIn is absolutely the worst when it comes to introducing new ways of spamming me and every time they do it, which is quite often, I wonder that.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Every new tech scam is legal in EU for the first six and a half years.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.

After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.

So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.

[–] _hovi_@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I'd say most of us hate the site man, but that's where a lot of jobs are

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

I'm American, so we're probably doing worse shit, but this shit is exactly why I hate how hard my professors push for us to be on LinkedIn. Besides it being Facebook but for hustle bros and shitty managers, the company itself doesn't give a shit about it's users and their privacy.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 6 days ago

You should have already deleted your Microsoft accounts because of their role building murder robots for the genocide.