LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft, is currently facing two class action lawsuits in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. These lawsuits challenge the company's practice of scanning users' browsers to identify installed extensions. Both lawsuits, filed by different law firms on behalf of individual plaintiffs, claim that LinkedIn's disclosures about its scanning practices are inadequate. The complaints reference a report by Fairlinked, a German trade association that focuses on commercial LinkedIn users, which has raised concerns about user privacy. LinkedIn acknowledges that it scans browsers, particularly Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, to detect extensions that may scrape user data without consent. However, the lawsuits argue that LinkedIn's privacy policy does not sufficiently inform users about how their data is collected and used. This controversy highlights ongoing debates about user privacy and data protection in the digital age.