LinkedIn Trained AI on Millions of Users’ Data, Suit Says (1)

LinkedIn Corp. shared millions of Premium customers’ personal messages with third parties without consent to train artificial intelligence models, a proposed class action said.

The Microsoft Corp.-owned networking platform “quietly” introduced a new privacy setting in August 2024 that automatically opted users into a program that allowed LinkedIn and “affiliates” to train large language models with users’ personal data, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Following backlash about the new setting, LinkedIn updated its privacy policy in September to account for AI-related data sharing, the ...