Check Steve Job’s comment on privacy on YouTube: Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference 2010 at 1:09:02 mark...
iOS 14 introduces a feature that alerts users when apps access their clipboards, and tons of apps have been caught clipboard snooping.
LinkedIn is one of the iOS apps that has been reading user clipboards, and iPhone owners have complained that the app copies the contents of the clipboard with every keystroke.
In a statement to ZDNet, LinkedIn said that the clipboard copying behavior is a bug and is not intended behavior. A VP at LinkedIn also said that the contents of the clipboard are not stored or transmitted. A fix for the issue is in the works, and should be available soon.
Other apps like TikTok, Twitter, Starbucks, Overstock, AccuWeather, and more have been caught reading user clipboards for no discernible reason. TikTok claimed that the clipboard access was used as fraud detection to suss out "repetitive, spammy behavior," and TikTok released an iOS update to remove it.
Ahead of the release of iOS 14, a pair of developers released a report letting users know that iPhone and iPad apps were accessing clipboard content behind the scenes. Apple's new iOS 14 feature appears to have been added in response, and there's no longer a way for apps to quietly read the clipboard without users being alerted to the behavior.
Article Link: LinkedIn Says iOS App Reading Clipboard With Every Keystroke is a Bug, Fix Coming
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LinkedIn Says iOS App Reading Clipboard With Every Keystroke is a Bug, Fix Coming
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There are many ways to avoid these types of abuses without discarding you’re device. That isn’t a very viable solution in today’s world.
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FF? So it ain’t so, Joe!
This is exactly why I got rid of apps where I can. The websites format just as good in Safari
Here's a cool example. Years ago, when I'd get a call from an unknown number, I'd type the number into the White Pages app, do a reverse lookup and see what I could learn. Now, if I copy the number first, when I go to the White Pages app, it asks if I want to lookup the number on my clipboard and I don't need to type anything.
That is why this behavior should be made possible. Tik Tok, LinkedIn, Starbucks, Accuweather, etc. are why we can't have nice things. Because it seems all their programmers have accidentally used the clipboard APIs for no good reason and then proceeded to all write the same bug on accident. We can thank our lucky stars that they've all told us they weren't capturing or using that information.
I must be a super-star programmer. I've somehow managed to avoid using that API on accident. And I've somehow avoided writing any code on accident to capture private information from the user. I've got better things to do than spending a day or two coding up and testing a "bug" like that.
Reid Hoffman was good friends with Jeffery Epstein and helped repair Epstein's public "image."
All you need to know.
All you need to know.
Just remember though, it is not "corporations" it is the people in charge of the corporations. E.g. large shareholders, CEOs, Presidents etc. Look at Zuckerberg, Gates, Hoffman, Balmer, Schmidt, Page, Brin, etc. And then look at their politics, they are not looking out for the little guy, they are looking out for their own power and bottom lines. Yet all too often they are given a free pass because they SAY one thing, while in practice do the opposite.
It is disgusting.
I found LinkedIn to be somewhat useful every now and then on my iPhone. But now it’s uninstalled.
Expect to see many more of these “it’s just a bug” defences as more apps and companies continue to be called out by iOS 14’s enhanced privacy features.
A bug? Yeah right Linked-In. You've been busted with your hand in the cookie jar.
I've never seen so much tracking from when I used it. For example, somehow it tried connecting me with my wife's zumba fitness trainer, and my wife didn't even have a Linked-In account, nor had I really been adding friends at that point. I certainly didn't give it access to my contacts either.
To this day I refuse to use Linked-In for this reason. I think I trust them less than Google if that's saying anything.
I've never seen so much tracking from when I used it. For example, somehow it tried connecting me with my wife's zumba fitness trainer, and my wife didn't even have a Linked-In account, nor had I really been adding friends at that point. I certainly didn't give it access to my contacts either.
To this day I refuse to use Linked-In for this reason. I think I trust them less than Google if that's saying anything.
Note that LinkedIn opted to remove Google sign in on their app to avoid having to implement Sign In With Apple which preserves user privacy.
Many of these companies profit off snooping on our activity and LinkedIn is neck deep. Good for Apple for implementing these systems to return control to users.
Many of these companies profit off snooping on our activity and LinkedIn is neck deep. Good for Apple for implementing these systems to return control to users.
T-mobile Tuesday app does the same thing
iOS 14 introduces a feature that alerts users when apps access their clipboards, and tons of apps have been caught clipboard snooping.
LinkedIn is one of the iOS apps that has been reading user clipboards, and iPhone owners have complained that the app copies the contents of the clipboard with every keystroke.
In a statement to ZDNet, LinkedIn said that the clipboard copying behavior is a bug and is not intended behavior. A VP at LinkedIn also said that the contents of the clipboard are not stored or transmitted. A fix for the issue is in the works, and should be available soon.
Other apps like TikTok, Twitter, Starbucks, Overstock, AccuWeather, and more have been caught reading user clipboards for no discernible reason. TikTok claimed that the clipboard access was used as fraud detection to suss out "repetitive, spammy behavior," and TikTok released an iOS update to remove it.
Ahead of the release of iOS 14, a pair of developers released a report letting users know that iPhone and iPad apps were accessing clipboard content behind the scenes. Apple's new iOS 14 feature appears to have been added in response, and there's no longer a way for apps to quietly read the clipboard without users being alerted to the behavior.
Article Link: LinkedIn Says iOS App Reading Clipboard With Every Keystroke is a Bug, Fix Coming
Being sorry is no good, punishment is. If you break someone's car, saying sorry is not enough. You have to pay for it wholly and do jail time for violating civilized society laws. slap wrist fines are no good, they might as well call it "Privacy Violating Tax"
Just another reason to add to my list for why I am glad I deleted my account many, many years ago and blocked all connections to it on my network. To me LinkedIn is just another form of social media dressed up to look professional.
#deletesocialmedia
#deletesocialmedia
An equality check and reminder that these things don’t just take place in China onlyAn "equality check." Uh huh
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Them telling us it is a bug is like TikTok,Huawei or some other Chinese company telling us it is a bug. There are many companies in the US that do the same thing we accuse others of doing.