LinkedIn gives you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile

If you thought your postings on LinkedIn were safe from the AI-training arms race, think again.

The Microsoft-owned professional networking site has quietly announced that from Monday, 3 November 2025, it will be using profile details, public posts, feed activity data, and more from users in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong to train its artificial intelligence models – as well as to support personalised ads across the broader family of Microsoft companies.

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