(Reuters) – LinkedIn (MSFT. O) of Microsoft Corp filed Friday through a New York-based iPhone user for allegedly reading and hijacking sensitive content from users of Apple Inc.’s Universal Clipboard app (AAPL. O).
According to Apple’s website, Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text, images, photos, and videos to an Apple device and then paste the content to the Apple device.
According to Adam Bauer’s lawsuit in San Francisco Federal Court, LinkedIn reads The Papers Press information notifying the user.
LinkedIn did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
According to last week’s media reports, 53 apps, adding TikTok and LinkedIn, read the contents of the universal paperweight to users, after Apple’s newest privacy feature began alerting users every time they saw the clipboard with a banner that said “pasted messages”. “
“These” readings “are interpreted through Apple’s universal paperweight as a “paste” command, Bauer’s demand alleges.
A LinkedIn executive said on Twitter last week that the company had launched a new edition of its app to complete the practice.
Apple’s iOS 14 operational formula developers and evaluators discovered that the LinkedIn app on iPhones and iPads “much” reads users’ clipboards, to the complaint.
The lawsuit seeks to certify the complaint as an action of elegance over an alleged violation of the law or social norms under California law.
According to the complaint, LinkedIn only spied on its users, also spied on their computers and other nearby devices, and ignored the expiration time of Apple’s universal clipboard.
Reporting through Aishwarya Nair in Bangalore; Editing via Sonya Hepinstall
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