With the arrival of iOS 14, privacy-related news has been included, which is revealing some problems in third-party applications. With the new notice that appears informing when an app reads the clipboard, Linkedin has ended with an important demand. In this article we tell you all the details that have been known about it.
Linkedin will go through court because of iOS 14
As we say, one of the novelties of iOS 14 has caused Linkedin to be discovered by reading the clipboard of users on iPhone and iPad. But although the company has stated that it is due to a specific software error, a user does not think the same. To see if you are right or have not sued the application in court for reading confidential content without any permission.
The user who has sued this practice has been Adam Bauer who has argued that Linkedin collects personal information from the clipboard. But it would not only have access to the information stored on the iPhone but also on the rest of the computers in the ecosystem. Thanks to the universal clipboard, anything that is copied from the Mac is also registered in this way and can be ‘seen’ by Linkedin. At the moment the application has not wanted to comment on this practice, since it has only defended that they have never read the clipboard intentionally. But obviously this is no excuse for them to skip the privacy policies since it is not known how long they have been taking this practice. It has only been revealed now that iOS 14 informs users of this type of action, but it is not known if from the beginning they are collecting the information from the clipboard.
iOS 14 improves privacy information
Surely we users have the right not to collect iPhone or iPad data without our permission. Although privacy policies are very extensive, they are not always equally transparent when different data is to be collected. This is why a small indicator is now included where it is clearly reported when the camera or microphone is being accessed, as well as the information of which application is accessing that information. Now the baner at the top has been added which informs at any time when a paste is being done from the clipboard.
In addition to Linkedin, there are many applications that have also had irregular behavior. TikTok, AccuWeather or AliExpress have also accessed the clipboard without the user’s extraordinary permission to copy the information from it. The problem now is that a complaint has been filed for the first time and it must be settled whether it was really a causal problem or something intentional. Obviously if the latter is confirmed in the end it will be very negative for the company. The fact of being able to spy on its users in this way can finally cause a million dollar fine for violating the privacy of users.
