LinkedIn Hit By User Privacy Lawsuit
Another social networking site is back in court to face accusations it violated users’ privacy by leaking private information to third-party advertisers. The lawsuit may be new for LinkedIn, but it’s a situation, and a claim, we’ve seen before.
Another social networking site is back in court to face accusations it violated users’ privacy by leaking private information to third-party advertisers. The lawsuit may be new for LinkedIn, but it’s a situation, and a claim, we’ve seen before.
The suit against LinkedIn addresses the site’s use of “referrer headers” to allegedly pass private information to advertisers, letting them know on which pages users clicked their ads, and sharing private data that could be used to identify the user personally.
In a class action suit filed last week in California, San Francisco resident Kevin Low alleges he was “embarrassed and humiliated by the disclosure of his personally identifiable browsing history,” as a result of LinkedIn’s use of referrer headers to enable third parties to discover his name and browsing history.
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