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According to Apple's website, Universal Clipboard allows users
to copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and
then paste the content onto another Apple device.
According to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court by
Adam Bauer, LinkedIn reads the Clipboard information without
notifying the user.
LinkedIn did not immediately respond to Reuters request for
comment.
According to media reports from last week, 53 apps including
TikTok and LinkedIn were reported to be reading users' Universal
Clipboard content, after Apple's latest privacy feature started
alerting users whenever the clipboard was accessed with a banner
saying "pasted from Messages."
"These "reads" are interpreted by Apple's Universal Clipboard as
a "paste" command," Bauer's lawsuit alleged.
A LinkedIn executive had said on Twitter last week that the
company released a new version of its app to end this practice.
Developers and testers of Apple's operating system iOS 14 found
that LinkedIn's application on iPhones and iPads "secretly" read
users' clipboard "a lot," according to the complaint.
The lawsuit seeks to certify the complaint as class action based
on alleged violation of the law or social norms, under
California laws.
According to the complaint, LinkedIn has not only been spying on
its users, it has been spying on their nearby computers and
other devices, and it has been circumventing Apple's Universal
Clipboard timeout.
(Reporting by Aishwarya Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonya
Hepinstall)
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