After TikTok, LinkedIn reports that its app’s clipboard continuous access to the iPhone will be removed. This decision follows after a user exposed this seemingly invasive privacy practice.
As reported ZDNet, LinkedIn stated that this behavior was a bug and that the access to the Clipboard on the iPhone was enabled to perform an “association check” between what the user is writing at the moment and what is present in her clipboard. The CTO of Erran Berger did not explain why this verification was necessary even without valid reason, only adding that continuous access to the clipboard every time a key is pressed is a bug that will be resolved soon: “In any case, we do not store or transmit the content of the notes to third parties. “
LinkedIn app behavior discovered thanks to new feature iOS 14. This is intended to notify users when an application accesses the Clipboard. This feature allowed users to spot questionable behavior from various applications that appear to copy the contents of the clipboard at the touch of a button. A corrective update should be released in the coming days.
Even Reddit says it has fixed an issue that caused the Clipboard on the iPhone to be read continuously. For both applications, the doubt remains that, without iOS and the warning to access the clipboard, these “bugs” would never have been fixed.
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