Security News > 2020 > July > Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness

Microsoft's social-media-for-suits tentacle, LinkedIn, has attracted legal fire for allegedly peering at the clipboard of iOS devices.

As well as doubtless making the podcast app a bit worse, the upcoming version of Apple's mobile OS also features a bunch of privacy features, including a notification telling the user when an app is reading from the device's clipboard.

Those brave enough to take the beta of iOS 14 out for a spin now receive notifications when the clipboard is accessed and have found that some apps - allegedly including LinkedIn's - have been reading from the clipboard without the user triggering a paste command.

The clipboard could contain all manner of private information as users hop from app to app "And LinkedIn was surreptitiously reading it - again and again and again - without any user-triggered paste commands, and without even notifying the user."

Regardless of whether Bauer's action proceeds or achieves class-action status, the arrival of iOS's additional privacy notifications will give developers pause for thought when it comes to what their apps are doing.

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