If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.
LinkedIn announced changes to its data use terms several weeks ago, noting that as of November 3 it would start sucking up data from "members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong" to train AI models. While not mentioned by name in the notice, scrolling down the update page to the section on the UK indicates that previous exceptions which rendered Blighty safe from LinkedIn scraping are being eliminated too.
As for what's up for harvesting, it's pretty much everything on LinkedIn, the update noted – profile details and public posts are all fai

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