WARNING: LinkedIn has your profile. They have more from illegally spying on you.

“LinkedIn started injecting malicious code into the browsers of their users, without their knowledge or their consent. At the time of writing, this code downloads a list of 6,222 software products and brute-forces the detection of each one.”

More info:

https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/

What you can do:

https://browsergate.eu/take-action/

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The BrowserGate folks have provided an evidence pack, proving the scraping of data from your computer.

This includes a sworn affidavit by LinkedIn’s Senior Manager of Software Engineering and Machine Learning, Milinda Lakkam. It’s an admission of guilt. Under oath.

https://browsergate.eu/the-evidence-pack/

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