Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models


The LinkedIn app logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this illustration picture taken October 19 2021. REUTERSFlorence LoIllustration

The LinkedIn app logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this illustration picture taken October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration

(Reuters) -Microsoft's LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models.

According to a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night on behalf of millions of LinkedIn Premium customers, LinkedIn quietly introduced a privacy setting last August that let users enable or disable the sharing of their personal data.

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