Several U.S. states have enacted privacy laws to grant new privacy rights to their residents. These laws include the California Consumer Privacy Act (as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act) (CCPA) and comprehensive consumer privacy laws enacted in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Florida, Montana, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Delaware, and New Jersey, among others.
Depending on the state, these laws, as applicable, provide individuals with rights to:
- Access their information
- Correct their inaccurate information
- Opt out if a business “sells†their information, uses or shares it for certain advertising purposes, or profiles them to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects
- Question the results of decisions with legal or similarly significant effects
- Be notified about a business’s data practices
- Be informed of third parties who receive their data, if any
- Nondiscrimination for exercising their privacy rights
- Delete their personal information
- Appeal if a business refuses to delete, correct, or provide their information (if LinkedIn denies such a request, you will be able to appeal by responding to the message we send to inform you of our decision)
The goals and key requirements of these laws are consistent with LinkedIn's longstanding commitment to data protection and transparency. This commitment is reflected in our focus on building privacy into our products, providing our members with control over their data and being transparent about how we use member data. Our Privacy Policy contains more information about the types of information we collect, how we use it, the circumstances under which we share it with others, how you can exercise your rights, and how to contact us. You can learn more about how we comply with the CCPA in our California Consumer Privacy Act Notice, which supplements our Privacy Policy. For purposes of the Colorado Privacy Act and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, we do not sell your data, or profile you to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. You may find additional useful information on managing your LinkedIn profile in our Privacy FAQs.
Targeted advertising
LinkedIn may use information that we receive from others about your engagement with their sites and services, in order to improve our tools for targeting ads. While we do not use your off-LinkedIn engagement data to predict your interests at an individual level, we do use it to improve our tools for targeting ads overall. Many U.S. states consider ads selected based on an individual’s activities outside of a company’s own websites or applications to be “targeted advertising†and provide you a right to opt out of having your data used for this purpose. You can opt out of LinkedIn’s use of your engagement with the sites and services of others to improve our ad targeting by visiting the Data from others for Ads setting (formerly known as the Interactions with businesses setting). In addition to this control, in the US, we automatically will opt you out of this setting if we receive a Global Privacy Control signal from you. If you previously opted out using the earlier version of this setting (the Interaction with businesses setting) you also will be opted out.
Commitment regarding deidentified data
Under some laws, “deidentified†information is not considered personal information where a company commits that it will not attempt to reidentify it. Where we process information that we regard as deidentified, we will maintain and use it in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify it.