privacy-settings/Privacy Settings/LinkedIn.md

LinkedIn Privacy Settings

Go to Settings & Privacy.

Account preferences

Syncing options

• Sync Contacts: Remove all

Partners & services

• Microsoft: Don't connect or remove if already connected
• Twitter: Don't connect or remove if already connected

Sign-in & security

Where you're signed in

Check where you've signed in from and sign out of any unnecessecary/unused sessions.

Devices that remember your password

Remove any device you don't use.

Two-step verification

• Turn on
• Select Authenticator App. Never choose Phone Number (SMS)
• Don't use Microsoft Authenticator as instructed there. Instead use a privacy respecting authenticator app. Check out recommendations, alternatives and reviews.

Visibility

Visibility of your profile & network

• Who can see or download your email address >

  • Never select Anyone on LinkedIn
  • Allow your connections to download your email in their data export?: No

• Connections >

  • Allow your connections to see your connections list: No

Visibility of your LinkedIn activity

• Manage active status >
  • Who can see that you are currently active while you are using LinkedIn?: Your Connections only or No one

Communications

Who can reach you

• Messages >

  • Allow LinkedIn partners to show you Sponsored Messages on LinkedIn?: No

• Research invites >

  • Allow LinkedIn or third-party partners to send you invitations for participating in product feedback surveys, market research, and other studies?: No

Messaging experience

• Messaging suggestions >
  • Allow LinkedIn to show you Messaging suggestions, some of which are personalized using automated systems to recognize patterns in messages?: No

Data privacy

Job seeking preferences

• Job application settings >

  • Save and manage your resumes and answers: Off > Yes, delete

• Social, economic, and workplace research >

  • Can we enable trusted third-party partners to use data about you for social, economic, and workplace research?: No

Other applications

Remove anything not required anymore

Advertising data

Third-party data

• Audience insights for websites you visit >

  • Can we use information (that does not identify you) about your visits to other websites to help them better understand their audiences?: No

• Ads outside of LinkedIn >

  • Can we show you personalized ads outside of LinkedIn?: No

• Ad-related actions >

  • Can we use your information (that does not identify you) about actions you took on ads to let advertisers know aggregate information about how their ad performed?: No