It's quite damning that the folks behind the #BrowserGate investigation about #LinkedIn's hidden browser extensions scanning programme have opted to sue #Microsoft in court for #DMA infringement rather than submitting a complaint for public enforcement to the @EUCommission.
It looks like they have little trust in the EU Commission to do that job quickly and effectively enough. 🤷♂️
#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #DataProtection #GDPR #privacy
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@vantiss/116342005257886265
Or maybe they just want to settle with Microsoft to get access to LinkedIn for their own data scraping tool..
@ilumium @EUCommission
@osma @whvholst Thanks for jumping in. After some more reading I've removed the link to the #BrowserGate website from my original post to not give more air to their overblown claims (while also keeping the point about #DMA enforcement).
I'd rather have people read @rysiek's thread about it:
There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium: https://browsergate.eu/ The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities". tl;dr: - yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome; - yes, this is bad; - but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims. 🧵 #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
Jan Penfrat
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