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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)
submitted 6 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The browser can never know what information is needed for a certain use case. So it needs to be permissive in order to not break valid uses.

For instance, your list does not include the things a user clicks on the website. But that’s exactly the info I needed to log recently. A user was complaining that dropdowns would close automatically. We quickly reached the assumption that something was sending two click events. In order to prove that, I started logging the users’ clicks. If there were two in the same millisecond, then it’s definitely not a bug but a hardware (or driver or OS or whatever) issue.

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Bug fixing is not a reason to enable massive privacy violations.