LinkedIn sign is seen at its campus in Sunnyvale, California, in 2023. LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock LinkedIn Hit With Wave of Health Data Claims Under California Privacy Law
All three cases, filed by Bursor & Fisher in the California Northern District Court and the California Superior Court in Santa Clara County, alleged wiretapping claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
October 25, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
What You Need to Know
- 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 information via the installation of its LinkedIn Insight Tag on health care companies' websites.
- A tracking technology litigation expert says that companies have to be more proactive about informing customers of the way that their data is used and collected to avoid falling prey to CIPA claims.
Business-focused social media platform LinkedIn has been slapped with three digital privacy class actions contending that it illegally intercepted users' sensitive health care information to use in targeted advertising.
All three cases, filed by Bursor & Fisher in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Santa Clara County Superior Court, asserted wiretapping claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act. The claims were brought on behalf of class members who made appointments on the websites of health care companies Spring Fertility, a fertility clinic; online psychotherapy platform Therapymatch Inc., doing business as Headway; and accessible urgent care provider Village Practice Management Co., doing business as CityMD.
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