Microsoft's social-media-for-suits tentacle, LinkedIn, has attracted legal fire for allegedly peering at the clipboard of iOS devices.
A putative class-action lawsuit [PDF], filed on Friday by Adam Bauer in the US District Court for Northern California, has claimed that LinkedIn's iPhone and iPad apps peered at Apple's Universal Clipboard, which can also briefly contain data from nearby Mac devices.
As well as doubtless making the podcast app a bit worse (as it seems to do with every release), 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.
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