LinkedIn Hit With Two Suits Over Browser Extension Tracking

LinkedIn Corp. was hit with two proposed class actions in federal court that alleged its anti-abuse regime was a fig leaf for a covert surveillance system that recorded users’ browser extensions.

Plaintiffs Jeff Ganan and Nicholas Farrell said LinkedIn installed client-side code on their browsers without their consent or knowledge and searched for extensions that had little to do with scraping or automation, according to the complaints filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The lawsuits share details with a website published by Fairlinked eV that said every LinkedIn visitor is served with a ...