LinkedIn Beats "BrowserGate" Lawsuits Over Scanning Users' Chrome Extensions The recent ruling in favor of LinkedIn has significant implications for online privacy.
Two lawsuits, brought by Nicholas Farrell and Jeff Ganan, were dismissed after the judge concluded that users had voluntarily downloaded browser extensions that exposed data to websites.
This decision appears to be a technicality, with the plaintiffs failing to adequately allege that their browser extensions conveyed private information to LinkedIn.