Jos PoortvlietApr 8

If you haven't recently been reminded why we should all be using #Mastodon - check out what LinkedIn is up to. https://browsergate.eu

#privacy

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.

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Attached: 4 images ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that: - Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.eu are in fact the **same people behind "Teamfluence"**, the scraper/automation/etc addon company listed as bringing the lawsuit against LinkedIn - Teamfluence was also the company mentioned and (poorly) redacted in the legal docs browsergate.eu offers up with the quotes from a LinkedIn engineer So basically, Teamfluence was scraping data from LinkedIn, got blocked for it, and now are trying to get this trumped-up campaign going to [checks notes] try to be able to automate scraping vacuuming up peoples' LinkedIn data again. I'm no fan of Microsoft or LinkedIn, but the purpose of their detection methods here seem to be *preventing* addons like Teamfluence which harm both them *and* LinkedIn's users (note: I was drafting this last night, but was looking for more info still - credit to [William O'Connell on bsky](https://bsky.app/profile/william-oconnell.bsky.social/post/3mil3ef5cdk2u) for discovering and posting the screenshot of the court document that is now the 4th screenshot in this post)

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