Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. You join LinkedIn to share information with strangers or casual acquaintances, so it may seem like one social service ...

Since LinkedIn doesn’t require you to share the same types of personal information as you do on Facebook, the service’s privacy settings appear to be much more straightforward than its less ...

LinkedIn, like all social networks, uses a lot of your personal information to show you ads and sponsored content. Just as you’d be wary about sharing more of your data with Facebook, you should also ...

Privacy advocates' criticism over recent moves by Facebook and Google Buzz begs the question: Is privacy possible in a social network? And, if so, which social ...

LinkedIn and Facebook were hit with new lawsuits last week over analytics tools that tracked users' activity at health care sites. In one complaint, a Brooklyn resident identified in court papers as ...

LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an ...

LinkedIn admitted Wednesday that it has been training its own AI on many users’ data without seeking consent. Now there’s no way for users to opt out of training that has already occurred, as LinkedIn ...

LinkedIn may or may not be the perfect Twitter replacement, but one thing is for sure: It's a profoundly weird place. Staying active on the platform is basically required for today's knowledge workers ...

Pitts rejected LinkedIn's argument for now, writing that other judges in the Northern District of California have allowed plaintiffs to proceed with video privacy claims against companies, as long as ...

Many regard LinkedIn as the “safe” social network–there are no games that jeopardize your privacy, you aren’t posting incriminating photos of last weekend’s Halloween party and you’re not TKTKTKTK.