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Company: LinkedIn Corporation
Current Parent Company: Microsoft
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Penalty: $13,000,000
Year: 2016
Date: February 16, 2016
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: sending of unsolicited spam messages to users
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:13cv4303
Case Name: Perkins et al v. LinkedIn Corporation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Current Parent: software
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