Many regard LinkedIn as the “safe” social network–there are no games that jeopardize your privacy, you aren’t posting incriminating photos of last weekend’s Halloween party and you’re not TKTKTKTK.

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 ...

LinkedIn and Facebook were hit with new lawsuits last week over analytics tools that tracked users' activity at health care sites. In one complaint, a Brooklyn resident identified in court papers as ...

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 in the ...

LinkedIn admitted Wednesday that it has been training its own AI on many users’ data without seeking consent. Now there’s no way for users to opt out of training that has already occurred, as LinkedIn ...

LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an ...

Pitts rejected LinkedIn's argument for now, writing that other judges in the Northern District of California have allowed plaintiffs to proceed with video privacy claims against companies, as long as ...

LinkedIn will begin training its generative AI models on user data starting 3 November, prompting a reminder from Hong Kong's privacy watchdog for users to review the new terms. The training data ...

LinkedIn may or may not be the perfect Twitter replacement, but one thing is for sure: It's a profoundly weird place. Staying active on the platform is basically required for today's knowledge workers ...

Since LinkedIn doesn’t require you to share the same types of personal information as you do on Facebook, the service’s privacy settings appear to be much more straightforward than its less ...