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A proposed class action alleging that LinkedIn which is a division of Microsoft accused of violating the privacy of millions of Premium subscribers by revealing their private communications in order to train generative AI models has been dropped today.
Nine days after suing LinkedIn, the court declared that the case lacked merit and the 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 messages with AI-related third parties, De La Torre accused the business focused social media platform of breaching its pledge to use personal user data only to enhance its offerings. According to the complaint, LinkedIn disclosed the unauthorized sharing when it revised its privacy policy in September. It also stated that prior Al 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, who is a lawyer and vice president of the company stated in a LinkedIn post on Thursday that the company does not provide customer’s private messages for Al training. Saying, “We never did that.”
