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LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer

LinkedIn is using invasive techniques to fingerprint your browser. Together with its understanding of your identity and professional history, it has the ingredients for an incredibly detailed profile.
Computerized searching is the interaction of a human with a computer to retrieve information stored in data bases. A scribbled note with the cryptic message “computer search lung cancer chemotherapy” ...
In a decision handed on Friday, United States v. Kopankov, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Jacqueline Scott Corley, J.) suppressed the fruits of a computer warrant ...