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LinkedIn vs Fairphone

Based on our analysis, Fairphone is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.

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CategoryLinkedInFairphone
OverallD · 38/100B- · 68/100
What they collectConcern (28)Mixed (65)
Who they share it withConcern (30)Mixed (72)
What you can doConcern (42)Mixed (63)
What they promiseConcern (42)Mixed (68)
In plain English — LinkedIn

LinkedIn builds a remarkably detailed professional and personal profile from everything you do on and off the platform — including inferred age, gender, salary, and seniority — then shares it with Microsoft, advertisers, and third-party partners. Your data persists even after account closure, your public activity is fed into Microsoft's broader ad ecosystem, and there is no way to opt out of non-personalised ads.

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In plain English — Fairphone

Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.

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