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.

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

    • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      If you can do it client side, you can send it to a server…

      The difference is intent.

      • Madrigal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        you can send it to a server

        Yes, because web browsers, under current web architecture, allow this.

        This is entirely my point.

        • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          How would they prevent it? If they allow your app to read a value client side, it can do whatever it wants with it, including sending it.

          If your app needs to present different behavior based on user settings, it needs to read it.

    • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Ah I read as the Brower doesn’t need that data. I’d say it needs width (maybe height) but that’s it

      But this info talked about in OP is done via client sending the data to a server not the server getting it all the time