Privacy Commissioner’s Office Welcomes LinkedIn’s Pause of Using Hong Kong Users’ Personal Data for Training Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

On 3 October 2024, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) expressed concern regarding the employment-oriented social media platform LinkedIn's default opt-in setting for using Hong Kong users' personal data and content on the platform to train its generative AI models for content creation, and wrote to LinkedIn to enquire into the matter. The PCPD received a response from LinkedIn yesterday confirming that it has paused any use of Hong Kong users' personal data for such purposes as of 11 October 2024 while the PCPD's concerns are being addressed.

The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, welcomes LinkedIn's decision to pause any use of Hong Kong users' personal data for training generative AI models for content creation. The PCPD will continue to follow up and monitor the situation to ensure that the personal data privacy of Hong Kong users are safeguarded.

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