LinkedIn may have been using the personal messages of its users to train its AI model.
A new lawsuit confirmed the development and it’s raising eyebrows everywhere.
A class-action lawsuit filed in California accuses LinkedIn of secretly sharing Premium users’ private messages with third parties to train artificial intelligence models.
According to the allegations, the professional networking giant introduced a hidden privacy setting in August 2023.
The program quietly opted users into a program allowing their personal data for AI training.
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What’s more, the lawsuit claims LinkedIn tried to cover its tracks by updating its privacy policy a month later to include language permitting such data use.
The company allegedly changed its FAQs to say users could opt out of sharing data in the future—but that didn’t stop AI training already conducted with their information.
“These actions suggest LinkedIn knew it violated its privacy promises and aimed to avoid public backlash,” the lawsuit states.
LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, denies the claims, calling them “false” and “without merit.”
