nixCraft šŸ§13h ago

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer. Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history https://browsergate.eu/

Is there anything Microsoft is not doing these days?

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedInā€™s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedInā€™s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedInā€™s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each userā€™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.

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@nixCraft "Is there anything Microsoft is not doing these days?"

What the users ask for, apparently.

They're spinning that they are removing CoPilot from "unnecessary apps" as a user experience concession, but really, they're decreasing CoPilot's footprint in the RAMpocalypse era and walking back any recommendation of system RAM past the minimum.

Nobody involved in AI cares about end user efficiency. Just their datacenter and pocket book.

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