This archive report was first published on 11 July 2020.
On July 10, 2020, a lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court against Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn by a New York-based iPhone user, Adam Bauer. The lawsuit alleges that LinkedIn reads the Clipboard information without notifying the user.
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. Bauer's lawsuit claims that LinkedIn's actions violate the law and social norms under California laws.
LinkedIn did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, a LinkedIn executive had previously stated on Twitter that the company released a new version of its app to end the practice of reading users' clipboard content.
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 a class action based on the alleged violation of the law or social norms.
