LinkedIn

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LinkedIn

Basic information
Founded	2002
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Internet
Official website	https://linkedin.com/

LinkedIn is a social-media platform for professional networking, founded in 2002.

Summary

It has been known for its dark patterns.

Users register on LinkedIn with an email, which LinkedIn then scrapes their contacts list and uploads this information to LinkedIn.[1]

LinkedIn also makes it difficult to cancel their free trial membership, likely targeting users that have forgotten or are unable to locate the cancel page.[2]

LinkedIn's membership price has also quintupled from $10 per month in 2018 to $50 in 2024.

Data Privacy

LinkedIn automatically opts you into their program named "Data for Generative AI Improvement", or "GAI", which automatically says you agree to "Use my data for training content creation models." This comes with fine print which states, "This setting controls the training of generative AI models used to create content. When this setting is on LinkedIn and its affiliates may use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn for that purpose."

This automatically gives LinkedIn the license to use your personal data and the content you create to train their models. Even if you opt out, the personal data and content the platform has already used will not be deleted.

As of 29 January 2025, LinkedIn FAQ mentions that it does "not currently train content-generating AI models on data from members located in Canada, the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, or Mainland China."