wrath011014h ago
Michael Downey šŸ§¢

šŸšØ LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.

The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.

The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:

https://browsergate.eu

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy

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.

BrowserGate
Apr 2 at 10:14pmWeb
Show threadCaptain Jack Sparrow16h ago

@downey

so how does #linkedin avoid prosecution?

Show threadJoseph Lim 15h ago
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @downey The answer may lie in: 1) who owns LinkedIn, & 2) how long can they "stall" the regulatory &/or legal oversights that are already designed to be #bigtech-friendly scrappy.šŸ¤”
#BreakupBigtech
Show threadJiÅ™Ć­ Fiala Total Landscaping7h ago
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @downey the government likes it
Show threadHTPC NZ16h ago
@downey hmmm who made a browser that allows anyone including the maker of said browser to do this in the first place, even with explicit permission of the user... surely it wasn't done on purpose.
Show threadIzzy15h ago

@downey Good that we didn't trust them with anything related to security. Only imagine they'd keep the gates of, for example, secure boot or so ā€“ unthinkable! Or that banks, health institutions, or even governments, would store sensitive data on their servers. No way!

right? RIGHT? šŸ˜±

Show threadwrath011014h ago
@downey time to delete your LinkedIn account. Overwrite your posts with gibberish first.
Show threadit's B! Cavello šŸ13h ago
@downey @dcbikeguy Super interesting! Iā€™m inclined to think that there are probably sensible/benign motivations for this, but it still feels super gross.
Show threadSirMino8h ago
@b_cavello @downey @dcbikeguy benign motivations? lolwut
Show threadMel M 13h ago
@downey yet another reason to ditch Chrome...
Show threadļæ½10h ago
@downey sales tool? when you use it on a corp computer?
Show threadƁlvaro 6h ago
@downey I see this more as a technical issue from Chrome? Why it didn't work on Firefox? How many webs were doing that since 2017, or will do it from now on.
Show threadMikeStok2h ago
@downey @wordshaper maybe Chrome is part of the problem too.