LinkedIn Says iOS App Reading Clipboard With Every Keystroke is a Bug, Fix Coming

[C DM]

Considering LinkedIn serves professionals, it is expected the user base is full of highly educated individuals. This is the best response that they can come up with?
A bug? Really??
It is better to admit guilt than lying AND then caught lying.

And it could very well be petty much just what they said it is.

 

[Apple-Guy]

Also known as Damage Control

 

[Ron21]

I don't think Apple should even allow apps to read from the clipboard at all unless the user themselves initiates the paste action within an app..

It doesn't seem like a major inconvenience not having the app automatically read the clipboard to determine if anything relevant is copied, e.g. a tracking number.

 

[Apple Macintosh 128K]

Remember, LinkedIn is Microsoft-owned. I'm sure they'd never want to collect your data.

 

[dominiongamma]

Many apps sure seem to have this “bug”

Makes you realize some developers and big companies can’t be trusted anymore

 

[phongleq]

There is no reason IOS should allow apps to read the clipboard without the user performing a cut, copy, or paste command. Period. Why was this behavior ever even made possible at all?

there is for user experience standpoint. Pasting can be trigger many ways and looking at the clipboard needs to be viewed so developers like I can differentiate what you can paste and what you can’t. Like in the case of Facebook app. They prefetch a preview of any url pasted. But they don’t allow you to paste files or anything else. Cause practically anything can be copied to the clipboard on apple’s platforms

 

[gnasher729]

" We don't store or transmit the clipboard contents. " - not the point.

Well, that's exactly the point.

 

[doctor-don]

A few years ago I received an email from my brother (supposedly) informing me that he had a few photos to share with me. The link went to Tagged where I was asked for my email and MY EMAIL PASSWORD!!! Evidently my brother had given Tagged access to HIS email, and they used his contacts to send email to every contact.

Then, in the intervening years, I would get email from people I knew who, supposedly, had joined LinkedIn and were sending requests for me to join them on LinkedIn. They (LinkedIn), too, were getting access to the contacts of those who agreed to give up their email contacts.

This needs to STOP.

 

[b656]

TokTok : I will bring my homework tomorrow.
Linkedin : My dog ate my homework.

It's one thing to implement these things. But it's really something else when Linkedin thinks we are stupid.

 

[Techwatcher]

Yeah that's not a bug.

 

[Feyl]

Yeah, sure...

 

[boswald]

Even more trust in Microsoft goes down the toilet for me.

 

[bmustaf]

There a plenty of non-consensual stuff you can do reading clipboard data that doesn't require sending or storing it.

For example, using on-device native APIs provided both by Android and iOS to further drive advertising, determine user identity beyond UDID across installs even, etc is all possible.

It's either a naive denial or an intentionally crafted statement to be "technically accurate" and not be a legal lie, but very misleading to users who don't understand how this data actually gets (mis)used.

Well, that's exactly the point.

 

[tkukoc]

None of this is an accident.. waiting for Apple to lockdown all those 3rd party keyboards too.

 

[VictoryHighway]

and who owns Linkedin again????

MSFT

 

[arkmannj]

so why would they ever need to read the clipboard?

 

[nfl46]

Lmao. Damn. That “bug” is in a lot of apps. Great job, Apple.

 

[Wanted797]

There is no reason IOS should allow apps to read the clipboard without the user performing a cut, copy, or paste command. Period. Why was this behavior ever even made possible at all?

Even then no app requires access to the clipboard. The OS handles the storage and pasting for cut copy and paste. The app doesn’t need to see it.

 

[GTDaveMac]

A good idea might be to lower 1Password's time to clear the clipboard after a password is manually copied. On the Mac, go to Preferences... Security, and set Clear Clipboard Contents after to a lower number.

 

[dogslobber]

It was a designed in feature when the app originally shipped though.

 

[cr2]

Any ideas on what would be happening in the Android world?

 

[dogslobber]

Don’t use any non-stock apps unless you absolutely must. Even if they aren’t surreptitiously accessing your clipboard for no good reason, you’re still feeding them tons of other data. Some people recommend Firefox Focus coupled with Lockdown.

Agree totally. Third party apps on your phone are a security and privacy risk. I don't want to install your crappy app on my phone.

 

[macmyworld]

If it is a bug the developers are idiots. Every keystroke? Really?

 

[4jasontv]

Well, that's exactly the point.

The point is, why does it ever need access to the clipboard?
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LinkedIn is the herpes of social media.

 

[damphoose]

Slide in early with the bug excuse. That's smart. By next week no one else will be able to make that claim. Somebody's getting a promotion....or at the very least a bonus.