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LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

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160 points skilled | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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supermatt ◴[22 Sep 25 11:08 UTC] No.45331788[source]▶
What is it with American big tech and blatant disregard for EU privacy laws.

“Legitimate interest” is being used here to skirt around the need for consent (I.e. explicit opt-in) specifically because they know users will not give consent (otherwise they could easily ask them). That is an immediate red flag when it comes to “balancing” the rights and needs of the user vs the data processors “legitimate interest”.

i.e. big fine incoming for LinkedIn.

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rustc ◴[22 Sep 25 11:57 UTC] No.45332186[source]▶
But will the "big fine" be more than the money LinkedIn will make by doing this?
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1. realusername ◴[22 Sep 25 12:33 UTC] No.45332529[source]▶
I'm not sure how they are going to make money from this. LinkedIn has to be one of the most worthless dataset in existence for training an AI, half of it already looks generated by a LLM itself and the rest is low value content.

Even if it was free I wouldn't include it in AI training.