LinkedIn is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations of using private messages to train its AI model. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, has accused the Microsoft-owned professional networking site of "unlawfully disclosing its Premium customers’ private messages to third parties" and "concealing" its practices by "stealthily altering its privacy policies and statements.

A LinkedIn Premium subscriber claims the platform used private messages to train AI models, violating trust. Find out the details of this serious lawsuit now.

The case stemmed from a move last year by LinkedIn to turn on by default a setting which allowed user data to be used to train some AI systems. It was alleged this was done before users were alerted to the change in the LinkedIn terms of service, which have since been updated.

Sharing isn’t always caring, which might seem to be the case in a lawsuit in which LinkedIn was accused of sharing users’ private messages with other companies to train AI models in August of last year, according to the BBC. A LinkedIn Premium user files the lawsuit in California and on behalf of “all others” in the same situation.

A lawsuit claims LinkedIn is sharing data with third parties for AI training, including DMs. Many services have an option you can opt for, where you share your app usage data to t

Microsoft is in hot water this week after its business-focused social media platform LinkedIn was targeted with a proposed class