LinkedIn Pauses AI Training Using Canadian User Data: Privacy Commissioner

LinkedIn Pauses AI Training Using Canadian User Data: Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in Ottawa on Nov. 19, 2024. The Canadian Press/Patrick Doyle
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Canada’s privacy commissioner says LinkedIn has paused training its artificial intelligence models on data from Canadian users.

Philippe Dufresne says his office was informed of the pause by the tech platform, which he had reached out to after media reports suggested LinkedIn was training AI models with data from Canadian users it had not informed of the practice first.