Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Yet another major tech company is training AI models with user data—by default—and not informing users first. Following ...

LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn ...

Alessandro De La Torre, the plaintiff in the case, had claimed that LinkedIn violated the privacy of its Premium members by sharing their private messages with third parties involved in AI training.

LinkedIn general counsel Blake Lawit confirmed that LinkedIn's user agreement and privacy policy will be changed to better explain how users' personal data powers AI on the platform. Under the new ...

LinkedIn was hit with three health care data privacy class actions in California, all alleging violations of CIPA. The plaintiffs alleged that LinkedIn illegally accessed their sensitive medical ...

“Where LinkedIn trains generative AI models, we seek to minimize personal data in the datasets used to train the models, including by using privacy-enhancing technologies to redact or remove ...

The lawsuit against LinkedIn is on behalf of paying LinkedIn Premium users who ostensibly pay for enhanced privacy features. The allegations center on a privacy setting introduced in August 2024 ...

The lead European Union privacy regulator on Thursday said it had imposed a 310 million euro ($335 million) fine on Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab professional networking platform LinkedIn ...

LinkedIn writes on a help page that it uses generative AI for purposes like writing assistant features. You can revoke permission by heading to the Data privacy tab in your account settings and ...