LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions
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美国加州北区联邦法院法官驳回两起针对LinkedIn扫描用户浏览器扩展的诉讼，认为原告未能充分证明其具备起诉资格，因未指称自己安装了会向LinkedIn传递私人信息的扩展。法官允许原告修改诉状，但对其能否成立隐私侵权主张表示怀疑。两起集体诉讼由加州居民分别提起，其中一名原告律师表示正评估是否转至加州州法院或上诉至第九巡回上诉法院。
LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary's motion to dismiss the cases. The users who sued LinkedIn failed to adequately allege that they have standing to sue because neither asserted that they "had browser extensions installed that conveyed private information to LinkedIn," ruled Judge Vince Chhabria in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
In his ruling on Tuesday, Chhabria gave the plaintiffs leave to amend their complaints but said he doubts they can make a plausible case. "Given LinkedIn’s further arguments that users voluntarily download browser extensions, which by their nature intentionally expose data to websites, it seems unlikely that the plaintiffs will ever be able to allege a privacy violation, much less prevail at the end of the day," Chhabria wrote.
California residents Nicholas Farrell and Jeff Ganan separately filed class actions against LinkedIn in April, seeking to represent themselves and other LinkedIn users. Ganan's attorney, J.R. Howell, said he is evaluating whether to bring the claims in a California state court, which has different requirements on standing, or to appeal the US district court ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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