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Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼 ♻️ ⚡ @pallenberg@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
#Browsergate duerfte tatsaechlich der 1. grosse #Datenschutz Skandal sein, der auf #LinkedIn einschlaegt... nur irgendwie redet kaum jemand darueber. Und dies trotz bereits laufender Verfahren in der EU und den USA! Meine neue @info Ausgabe schaut sich die Vorwuerfe an: Warum muss Linkedin wissen, ob ich eine religioese Extension, ein Apotheker-Tool oder eine Browser-Erweiterung zur Jobsuche installiert habe? https://www.metacheles.de/browsergate-so-scannt-linkedin-offenbar-euren-rechner/ Freue mich ueber jeden Boost! Danke fuer euren Support 🙏
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: @markwyner@mas.to
· 6mo ago
WARNING: LinkedIn has your profile. They have more from illegally spying on you. “LinkedIn started injecting malicious code into the browsers of their users, without their knowledge or their consent. At the time of writing, this code downloads a list of 6,222 software products and brute-forces the detection of each one.” More info: https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/ What you can do: https://browsergate.eu/take-action/ 🧵 1/2 #BrowserGate #LinkedIn #InfoSec #OpSec #Privacy #Crime #YouAreTheProduct #Microsoft
BrowserGate

Executive Summary

Microsoft Corporation’s LinkedIn is running a massive, global, and illegal spying operation on every computer that visits their website. 1. The Regulation of Linkedin In 2024 Microsoft was designated as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act in the EU. The two regulated products are Microsoft Windows and Microsoft LinkedIn. The Digital Markets Act mandates that gatekeepers allow business users and authorized third parties free, effective, high-quality, continuous and real-time access to al

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social
· 6mo ago

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.

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#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy

BrowserGate

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,

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Michael Downey :notAI: @downey@floss.social
· 6mo ago
🚨 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
BrowserGate

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,

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