Steve Woodruff has noticed that LinkedIn has become the latest social networking site to decide that they can share your data without notification.

The all-new “Manage Social Advertising” option – which is switched on by default – allows LinkedIn to use profile information like names and photos in third-party advertising.

Finding the check-box to switch this off is not intuitive, but Woodruff has provided a handy guide to finding it.

Via The Register, which also notes that this new profile setting may breach Dutch privacy law.