This site leans hard on your data.
3/5 checks · 7 third parties · 9 cookies · capped at D
Ireland's privacy regulator fined LinkedIn €310 million for profiling members for targeted advertising without a valid legal basis under GDPR. A clean marketing site can’t change that — and a homepage scan can’t see what the app does once you log in — so this grade can’t rise above a D.
Why this grade is capped · sourced, not vibes
EU regulators fined LinkedIn 310 million euros in 2024 for analyzing and profiling members to target them with ads without a valid legal basis.
Source: Irish Data Protection Commission, €310M fine, Oct 24, 2024
Regulators found LinkedIn had no valid legal basis to use members' data — including data obtained from third parties — for behavioral analysis and targeted advertising.
Source: Irish DPC decision, Oct 2024 (GDPR Article 6)
What LinkedIn does with your data
A crowd of outside companies loads with the page — each one can log that you showed up.
Contacts 7 third-party domains on load
It drops third-party cookies that can trail you from one site to the next.
Sets 9 third-party cookies
Your connection is encrypted, so others on your network can’t read what you send.
Serves over HTTPS and enforces it (HSTS)
None of the trackers it contacts are on our high-risk watchlist.
Contacts no high-risk / adversarial-state domains
It isn’t a registered data broker.
Not a registered data broker
Last scored 6/3/2026
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