Raven Luni1d ago
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LinkedIn Is Quietly Scanning Your Browser Every Time You Visit

Research published on browsergate.eu reports that LinkedIn silently scans visitors' Chromium-based browsers for over 6,000 installed extensions, revealing indicators of sensitive personal data like religion, health, politics, and job-search activity. The platform can easily link findings to identified user profiles, which raises serious GDPR, ePrivacy, and general privacy and legal concerns.

**Switch to Firefox for LinkedIn, or use a separate Chrome profile with no extensions installed when visiting the site. And load up on all ad and script blocker extensions you can find, like Ublock Origin, Ublock Lite, Privacy Badger...**
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #awareness
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/linkedin-is-quietly-scanning-your-browser-every-time-you-visit-m-0-k-n-h/gD2P6Ple2L

LinkedIn Is Quietly Scanning Your Browser Every Time You Visit

Research published on browsergate.eu reports that LinkedIn silently scans visitors' Chromium-based browsers for over 6,000 installed extensions, revealing indicators of sensitive personal data like religion, health, politics, and job-search activity. The platform can easily link findings to identified user profiles, which raises serious GDPR, ePrivacy, and general privacy and legal concerns.

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Show threadJay Peach1d ago
@beyondmachines1 or just ditch StinkedIn, like I did many years ago when MoreSlop bought it.
Show threadSweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽1d ago
@beyondmachines1
Why not just delete LinkedIn and Chrome?
Show threadCaptain Jack Sparrow1d ago

@beyondmachines1

#LinkedInLeakedOut

Show threadIan1d ago

@beyondmachines1 Joke's on you LinkedIn, I never log in to the site.

The fact that some people use it as some weird business-centric social network makes me feel like perhaps they deserve it.

Show threadÆrion22h ago

@beyondmachines1
**Or better: close your LinkedIn account and be done with it.

I'm so fucking sick of #bigtech taking liberties with our accounts, our data, our hardware, our digital lives, with impunity. We are not their vassals.

Fine, so they're being taken to court. They may get fined. There may be new legislation. It won't matter. It amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. They'll (pretend to) comply, while inventing new ways to keep doing what they're doing.

Remember #Microsoft being forced to decouple Internet Explorer from XP, and getting fined? Try uninstalling Edge from W10/11…

I rest my case.

Nothing will change until people actually go to prison, not for 6 months or so, but for a decade or more.

We wouldn't accept ANY of this IRL!!

People would get locked up for gaining unauthorised access to your house, taking photos of your tools, book collection, etc., and selling them to 3rd parties! How has this become OK, just because it's digital and invisible?!