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A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to provide intelligence training for artificial intelligence (AI).
It claims that in August last year, the world’s largest professional social networking site “quietly” introduced a privacy setting, directly involving its users in a program that allowed third parties to use their personal data to train AI.
It also accuses the Microsoft-owned company of covering up its actions a month later by changing its privacy policy to say user information could be disclosed for AI training purposes.
A LinkedIn spokesperson told BBC News that “these are false and baseless allegations”.
The lawsuit also said that LinkedIn changed its ‘frequently asked questions’ section to say that users can choose not to share data for AI purposes but that doing so will not affect training that had already taken place.
“This shows that LinkedIn was fully aware it had breached its contractual commitments and privacy standards and aimed to minimize public scrutiny.”
According to an email LinkedIn sent to its users last year, it has not enabled the sharing of user data for AI purposes in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
LinkedIn has over one billion users worldwide, and about a quarter of them are in the United States.
