Greg Snapper, a spokesman for LinkedIn, said that the company is reviewing the lawsuit; in a July 2nd tweet, LinkedIn engineering VP Erran Berger said, “We don’t store or transmit the clipboard contents.” Berger blamed a code path that performs what he called an “equality check” between contents on the clipboard and typed text. In other words, LinkedIn said that a bug was behind its sniffing around iPhone users’ clipboards. Developers and those testing beta versions of iOS 14 said that LinkedIn was secretly reading content on iOS users’ clipboards “a lot,” according to the suit. “Constantly, even.”
The suit seeks to represent a group of LinkedIn users similar to Mr. Bauer who use LinkedIn on their iOS devices.