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### LinkedIn gewinnt Abweisung BrowserGate-Klage

Ars Technica • September 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM ET

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Richter Vince Chhabria wies zwei Klagen gegen LinkedIn im Northern District of California ab, da die Kläger die Klagebefugnis fehlte, um Datenschutzverletzungen geltend zu machen. Der Richter stellte fest, dass die Nutzer nicht beweisen konnten, dass sie Erweiterungen installiert hatten, die private Informationen an LinkedIn übermittelten, und merkte an, dass der freiwillige Download von Erweiterungen Daten inhärent preisgebe. Die Kläger Nicholas Farrell und Jeff Ganan reichten im April Sammelklagen ein; Ganans Anwalt J.

R. Howell prüft eine Berufung vor einem Staatsgericht oder eine Anfechtung vor dem Ninth Circuit. LinkedIn gewann, indem es argumentierte, dass Nutzer durch Browser-Erweiterungen freiwillig Daten preisgaben, was Datenschutzansprüche unglaubwürdig mache.

Der Streit entstand aus "BrowserGate", einem Bericht der deutschen Interessenvertretung Fairlinked, verbunden mit der estnischen Softwarefirma Teamfluence, die LinkedIn in München verklagte, nachdem ihr CEO wegen Scraping gesperrt wurde. Teamfluence entwickelte eine Chrome-Erweiterung zur Identifizierung von LinkedIn-Verkehr, was zu Kontosperrungen führte, die ein deutsches Tribunal als gerechtfertigte Vertragsverletzungen bestätigte. LinkedIn's Abweisungsantrag verwies auf Teamfluences Scraping-Aktivitäten als das eigentliche Problem, nicht auf LinkedIn's Datensammelpraktiken.

Der Fairlinked-Gründer und Teamfluence-Vertreter sitzt im Vorstand der Gruppe, was LinkedIn veranlasste, ihnen vorzuwerfen, nach dem Erwischen bei Vertragsverstößen eine gefälschte Datenschutz-Kontroverse inszeniert zu haben. Das Urteil befasst sich nicht mit der Rechtmäßigkeit von LinkedIn's Überwachung, bestätigt aber das Fehlen der Klagebefugnis für die Kläger.

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