LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content

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LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content

App has been updated to stop the practice.

Microsoft's LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday for allegedly reading and diverting users' sensitive content from Apple's Universal Clipboard application. According to Apple's website, Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text, images, photos, and ...

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