What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What LinkedIn does with your data
LinkedIn serves tailored ads on and off its own site, uses pixels and ad tags to recognise your devices across other services, trains AI models on your data, shares with its Microsoft affiliates, and keeps your data after you close your account for legal reasons.
Who to write to at LinkedIn
LinkedIn publishes a form and no address. Email is not actioned there, so the form below is the route that reaches a person.
- Who holds it
- Grievance Officer / Nodal Contact Person, Tanya Mampilly
Show me where they publish that
LinkedIn publishes“LinkedIn has designated the following as the Grievance Officer and Nodal Contact Person for India: Tanya Mampilly ... If you are a resident of India and would like to contact the Grievance Officer about an issue not listed in the links above, you can write to the postal address above or complete the India Grievance Officer Form.”
Read on 2026-09-21 their page↗
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
LinkedIn’s own policy says “We will share your personal data with our Affiliates to provide and develop our Services.”
Our summary shares your personal data with its affiliates.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
LinkedIn’s own policy says “We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing non-personalized ads.”
Our summary serves tailored ads both on and off its own services.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
LinkedIn’s own policy says “we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. ... If you are outside the Designated Countries, we also collect (or rely on others, including Microsoft, who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services”
Our summary uses pixels and ad tags to recognise you and your devices on, off and across other services.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
LinkedIn’s own policy says “We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse”
Our summary retains your personal data after you close your account for legal, regulatory, dispute, security and fraud purposes.
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Trains AI models on your content
Your photos, messages or activity are used to train machine-learning models.
What this costs you. This one has no undo. Once your content is inside a trained model, no erasure request can lift it back out.
Show me where they say that
LinkedIn’s own policy says “We may use your personal data to improve, develop, and provide products and Services, develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models, develop, provide, and personalize our Services, and gain insights with the help of AI, automated systems, and inferences”
Our summary may use your personal data to develop and train artificial intelligence models.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses LinkedIn’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Processes your face or other biometrics
LinkedIn is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does LinkedIn do with my personal data?
According to LinkedIn's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-13, it discloses 5 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, trains ai models on your content.
Can I withdraw my consent from LinkedIn?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does LinkedIn track me for advertising?
Yes — LinkedIn's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one LinkedIn declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-13. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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