LinkedIn sued over alleged theft of iOS clipboard data

Last week, we told you that thanks to a new feature in iOS 14, . The clipboard is where information copied from an app is kept until it is pasted to another app. As a result, there often is personal data written on the clipboard that is automatically erased after 120 seconds. The next build of iOS will notify a user when a third-party app is “reading” that user’s clipboard. Among the apps caught red-handed by iOS 14 were Chinese short-form video app TikTok, networking app LinkedIn, and social-media app Reddit.

, a class-action lawsuit filed Friday in San Francisco …