Six thousand extensions, zero permission, one lawsuit for LinkedIn

 LinkedIn is facing legal action in the United States over allegations that it secretly monitored users’ browsers by scanning thousands of installed extensions without clear consent. Two class-action lawsuits, filed in a California federal court, accuse the platform of violating privacy and anti-hacking laws by deploying code that detects browser extensions and transmits that data […] The post Six thousand extensions, zero permission, one lawsuit for LinkedIn appeared first on Marketing Edge Magazine.

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Six thousand extensions, zero permission, one lawsuit for LinkedIn

 LinkedIn is facing legal action in the United States over allegations that it secretly monitored users’ browsers by scanning thousands of installed extensions without clear consent. Two class-action lawsuits, filed in a California federal court, accuse the platform of violating privacy and anti-hacking laws by deploying code that detects browser extensions and transmits that data […]

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