Simone Margaritelli alleges that visiting a LinkedIn URL triggers hidden code that inventories installed software and sends it to LinkedIn and third parties. The claim raises privacy and endpoint fingerprinting concerns at massive scale.
Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://t.co/xYckaQ4NYC, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies
Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://t.co/xYckaQ4NYC, 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.
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
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