Mastodawn

"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.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."

https://browsergate.eu/

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

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Grant_H Apr 2

@brunomiguel

Avoiding Chrome (Chromium?) browsers seems a possible start to mitigation?

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Bruno Miguel Apr 2

@grant_h maybe. But given this on Chromium-based browsers, there's a chance that something similar might exist for other browsers, too

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Noa

@brunomiguel @grant_h it does. It's called "fingerprinting". This is the norm for large websites that advertise. They do this to assign digital IDs to everyone so they can build advertising profiles & sell all the data. "Age Verification" will make this problem worse because it'll link these profiles to a government ID.