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29-point LinkedIn privacy audit — stop profile-update broadcasts to your employer, hide connections and viewers, fix Open to Work, AI data use and permitted apps.
This checklist audits the 29 LinkedIn settings that decide who sees your profile, what your activity broadcasts, who can contact you and how your data is shared. It covers the three that cost people jobs — profile-update broadcasting, the Open to Work audience and a visible connections list — plus the public-profile editor, profile viewing mode, contact and calendar sync, advertising data, the generative-AI training setting and permitted third-party services. Each control is weighted by how much exposure it removes, and re-weighted for whether you are job hunting quietly or need to stay maximally visible.
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Profile-update sharing and Open to Work visibility are the two settings with a direct professional cost — they lead the list.
LinkedIn splits controls between Visibility, Data privacy and Communications, plus a separate public-profile editor.
A quiet job seeker and a recruiter get opposite orderings from the same 29 controls.
Settings & Privacy > Visibility > 'Share profile updates with your network', set to No. Do this before you edit anything: notifications already sent cannot be recalled, so the order matters more than the setting itself.
If you choose 'All LinkedIn members' the green #OpenToWork frame is visible to everyone, including colleagues. Choosing 'Recruiters only' hides the frame, but LinkedIn states it cannot guarantee that recruiters at your own company will never see it, so treat it as reduced risk rather than none.
Settings & Privacy > Visibility > Profile viewing options, then choose private mode or the semi-private option that shows only your industry and title. The trade-off is real: in private mode you also lose your own 'who viewed your profile' list.
There is a setting for it under Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement, and the default depends on where you are — it is off in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, and on in several other markets. Check your own account rather than assuming, since the default was applied without most members noticing.