LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) will face a lawsuit from members suing it for allegedly violating their privacy by tapping into their external email accounts and downloading their contacts’ addresses to recruit more users.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that the class-action lawsuit may proceed, which means members who sued can seek damages for money the professional-networking website made using their email address book information for marketing purposes on multiple occasions, Bloomberg reported.
Koh…