They dismiss an accusation against LinkedIn to violate the privacy of millions of premium clients by revealing their private messages to train generative artificial intelligence models.
The plaintiff Alessandro de la Torre presented on Thursday a notice of dismissal without prejudice in the Federal Court of San José, California, nine days after sueing LinkedIn and after the company said that the lawsuit had no merit.
De la Torre accused the social media platform focused on businesses to break a promise to use personal data of customers only to improve their services, by sharing customer messages with third parties involved in AI.
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LinkedIn did not participate in these actions
The complaint said that LinkedIn revealed the unauthorized exchange when he updated his privacy policy in September, and said that a new account configuration to avoid data exchange would not affect the previous AI training.
“LinkedIn’s late revelations left consumers, rightly concerned and confused about what was being used to train AI,” said Eli Wade-Scott, managing partner of Edelson PC, who represented De la Torre, in An email on Friday. “Users can comfort themselves, knowing that LinkedIn has shown us evidence that he did not use their private messages to do that,” he added. “We appreciate the professionalism of the LinkedIn team.”
In a publication on LinkedIn published on Thursday, Sarah Wight, lawyer and vice president of the company, confirmed that LinkedIn does not reveal the private messages of customers for artificial intelligence training. “We never did,” he said.
With Reuters information.
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