LinkedIn to Resume AI Training with European User Data Starting November 2025
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LinkedIn is planning to resume training generative AI models using European users' data starting November 3, 2025, after previously pausing these plans in September 2024 due to criticism. The company will use "legitimate interests" as its legal basis and will provide an opt-out option for users who don't want their data used for AI training. Private messages will be excluded from the training data. This policy applies to users in the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
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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.
This is a pivot from last year's pause. In September 2024, after criticism and scrutiny, LinkedIn suspended plans to train models on data from EU & U.K. users.
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