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LinkedIn has been caught snooping on the clipboard in iOS 14.
One developer found they were copying the content of the clipboard on every keystroke.
LinkedIn says that the behavior is a bug that will be fixed in an update to the app.
One of Apple's focuses for privacy in iOS 14 is giving users more information about what apps and websites are doing in the background with their information. One of those features is alerting users when an app copies the contents of your clipboard, and LinkedIn just got caught doing that - a lot.
Twitter user DonCubed, a developer for portfolio builder Urspace, posted a video showing that the LinkedIn app was copying the contents of his clipboard on every single keystroke.
"LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard every keystroke. IOS 14 allows users to see each paste notification. I'm on an IPad Pro and it's copying from the clipboard of my MacBook Pro. Tik tok just got called...
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LinkedIn caught copying user's clipboard in iOS 14, says it is a bug
