9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple.
PSA! Starting today (Nov. 3), Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will expand its use of user profile details, posts, and feed activity — excluding private messages — in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong to train its artificial intelligence models, as well as support personalized ads across Microsoft products.
The good news here: You can opt out of having your, presumably very humble posts and professional achievements, scraped into LLM-training pens.
Until now, users in those regions have been excluded from LinkedIn’s AI training pipeline. If you use LinkedIn in the United States and have not yet opted out, your data has likely been in the mix for some time.
This update brings EU, EEA, and Swiss users into the program — regions where stricter data privacy laws had previously slowed the social network’s ability to roll out to a large portion of its one billion members worldwide.
How to opt out
By default, LinkedIn members are automatically enrolled.
Keep your public personal information slightly more private by opting out of data sharing for AI training on the LinkedIn web app:
Go to the “Me” tab on the top bar, and under Account, click Settings & Privacy Next, on the left side bar, select Data privacy Then, select Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle it off
To limit data used across Microsoft’s ad network:
... continue reading