Claims That LinkedIn Trained AI With Personal Data Are Scrapped

A proposed class action against Microsoft Corp.‘s LinkedIn Corp. accusing the networking platform of sharing millions of Premium customers’ messages with third parties without consent was dropped.

Less than two weeks after he first sued the tech giant, named plaintiff and LinkedIn user Alessandro De La Torre ended his claims on Thursday in a voluntary notice of dismissal, without prejudice, filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California.

De La Torre had alleged LinkedIn “quietly” introduced a new privacy setting in August 2024 that automatically opted users into a program that allowed LinkedIn and its ...