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Six ways to protect your privacy on LinkedIn

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  • Six ways to protect your privacy on LinkedIn

    Six ways to protect your privacy on LinkedIn

    With over 300 million members LinkedIn is the business professionals network that connects you to potentially every other business professional around the world. With so many connections how do you protect your own LinkedIn connections whilst making sure that you share only the data you choose to share? 

    You can get to all of the settings mentioned here by clicking on the Privacy and Settings link under your profile photo in the top right hand corner of the LinkedIn screen.

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    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: Linkedin

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • Protect who can see your connections.

    Protect who can see your connections.

    Sometimes people connect with you only to jump to one of your other existing connections. They scroll down your profile and see the Connections section which tells them how many connections you mutually share and shows a full list of their first degree connections (your second degree connections). 

    others-connections

    Change the “Who can see your connections” dialog box in the Profile tab. By default this is set to “Your connections”. Change this setting to “Only You”.

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    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • How you rank amongst others

    How you rank amongst others

    If you are uncomfortable about the fact that you rank 126th out of all 126 of your connections on LinkedIn then you can hide this from your contacts.

    In the profile tab, click “Turn on/off how you Rank” and uncheck the box.

    Related article:

    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • Activity broadcasts

    Activity broadcasts

    LinkedIn lets you change permissions on your profile to hide your activity when you update LinkedIn. If you are looking around for a new job you might not want your current employer to find out that you are tidying up your LinkedIn profile in preparation for the move.

    In the profile tab click “Turn on/off your activity broadcasts” and uncheck the box. When you have got your profile in tip top shape you can then turn the setting back on and no one will be the wiser.

    Related article:

    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • Looking at profiles

    Looking at profiles

    LinkedIn displays a list of people that have viewed your profile. Sometimes you see a default picture with the caption “LinkedIn member” or “Someone in…”. You can change your settings so that you share only the information that you want to share.

    linkedin-views

    In the Profile tab click “Select What others see when you’ve viewed their profile”.You can show your name and headline, Anonymous profile characteristics, or choose to be totally anonymous.

    Related article:

    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • Sharing your data with third party applications

    Sharing your data with third party applications

    LinkedIn allows third party companies to use your data such as using the Login using your LinkedIn credentials which appears on some sites. If you grant access to third party apps such as About.me and HootSuite for example, then they have access to your LinkedIn profile and network data.

    LinkedIn does not directly share your personal data with any third party. However the advertiser can assume that you are within its target audience if you view or interact with an ad. It can then deliver ads to you.

    To stop this go to the Groups, Companies and Applications tab. Click the link to “Turn on/off data sharing with applications”. Uncheck the box to stop sharing your data with third party applications that you have not already interacted with.

    Related article:

    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

  • Manage privacy of LinkedIn plugins

    Manage privacy of LinkedIn plugins

    LinkedIn plugins are embedded across many sites including ZDNet. The share button is one of the plugins that sends information to LinkedIn that you are looking at the page if you are signed in to LinkedIn at the same time as you view the page. This allows LinkedIn to calculate how many LinkedIn users have shared that page.

    To turn it off go to the Groups, Companies and Applications tab and click on the “Manage settings for LinkedIn plugins on third party sites. Uncheck the box.

    Related article:

    How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

     

    Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

    Photo by: LinkedIn

    Caption by: Eileen Brown

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Eileen Brown

By Eileen Brown for Social Business | June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT) | Topic: Social Enterprise

  • Six ways to protect your privacy on LinkedIn
  • Protect who can see your connections.
  • How you rank amongst others
  • Activity broadcasts
  • Looking at profiles
  • Sharing your data with third party applications
  • Manage privacy of LinkedIn plugins

Protect your valuable business connections — and your data by changing these settings in LinkedIn.

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Six ways to protect your privacy on LinkedIn

With over 300 million members LinkedIn is the business professionals network that connects you to potentially every other business professional around the world. With so many connections how do you protect your own LinkedIn connections whilst making sure that you share only the data you choose to share? 

You can get to all of the settings mentioned here by clicking on the Privacy and Settings link under your profile photo in the top right hand corner of the LinkedIn screen.

Related article:

How Linkedin’s 'people we may know' feature is so accurate

Published: June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT)

Caption by: Eileen Brown

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By Eileen Brown for Social Business | June 14, 2014 -- 15:23 GMT (08:23 PDT) | Topic: Social Enterprise

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