Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.
Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
Aren’t you ever interested in how the people you know fare, hoping to see they are doing worse than you?
A number of human people do that, you know. Succumb.
Perhaps I miss the point, as no, I don’t.
I guess it’s feeding off people’s morbid curiosity?
No, not really. I may wonder how someone is doing but I don’t care enough to look.