LinkedIn has been cleared of a proposed class action alleging that it violated the privacy of millions of Premium subscribers by revealing their private chats to train generative artificial intelligence models.
Nine days after suing LinkedIn and after the business said the case lacked substance, plaintiff Alessandro De La Torre filed a notice of dismissal without prejudice in the federal court in San Jose, California, on Thursday.
By sharing user communications with AI-related third parties, De La Torre accused the business-oriented social media platform of breaching its pledge to utilize personal user data only to enhance its offerings.
According to the lawsuit, LinkedIn disclosed the unauthorized sharing when it revised its privacy policy in September. It also said that prior AI training would not be impacted by a new account setting that forbids data sharing.
“LinkedIn’s belated disclosures here left consumers rightly concerned and confused about what was being used to train AI,” Eli Wade-Scott, managing partner at Edelson PC, which represented De La Torre, said in an email on Friday.
“Users can take comfort, at least, that LinkedIn has shown us evidence that it did not use their private messages to do that,” he added. “We appreciate the professionalism of LinkedIn’s team.”
Sarah Wight, a lawyer and vice president at the company, acknowledged in a LinkedIn post on Thursday that the company does not share users’ private communications for AI training. “We never did that,” she said.
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