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This is straight up misinformation. First off, it's perfectly legal.
LinkedIn does browser fingerprinting. It's the same thing Google and Meta do. It's how Google Ads is shifting to a post-adblocker revenue stream.
Browser fingerprints show fonts used, audio codecs, WebGL render data, processor, operating system - enough that if you add up several factors together, it makes a statistically unique fingerprint. it does NOT scan applications on your computer. It can't. It DOES scan which browser extensions you have running (if they affect page loading).
If you check your email and then close that and go to Google in an incognito window and search for porn - Google will fucking know what you're looking at. Gmail and all Google apps all fingerprint, and then you'll notice how Google ads trackers are on most sites online? Yep. That's how they track you.
Use a VPN? Use an ad blocker? Great - Google doesn't care. Google can track your fingerprint.
See your own fingerprint - check how it know it's you visit after visit.
https://fingerprint.com/
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
https://amiunique.org/
Fonts, codecs, hardware, OS, extensions are all parts of a computer that never ever need to be transmitted to a website for it to function. Any information about them should be sandboxed, and if the website wants to display differently based on them, it can send static data or code in and get nothing back out.
I'm pretty sure for fonts they can tell because they have different widths, which affects page layout, which can be measured.
There's a lot of stuff like that.
Best would be make it illegal and give the law teeth. Solving it technically will always be an arms race.
technically browser extensions are considered applications under EU's GDPR
as per their report:
it's misleading to say its searching your computer tho...? this invokes the thought of LinkedIn getting to rifle through your files like it has access to ~/Documents/ or smth.
but yeah tracking you over the internet is similarly bad
Wait, your browser extensions aren't on your computer?
Yeah but still sick of this shit
I have NoScript for JS tracking, but what do you use for fingerprint randomisation?
I use CanvasBlocker.
I made no effort to do that, im using the duckduckgo browser on my phone.
Interesting, I also have the DDG browser but the test shows a unique fingerprint result. I don't think that I have tinkered with any settings and I haven't installed addons.
Correction- the first test was the browser inside the lemmy voyager app, not sure what its based on. This one is out of the DDG app;
Some of the test sites don't differentiate between random and unique. They may see a randomized fingerprint as a plausible unique user, but it may be different the next time you visit. Other sites may detect that your browser has taken steps to randomize your fingerprint, and use that as an identifying piece of information on its own (power user vs average joe)
I think the argument is that since some of the extensions that are probed can be political in nature, which can reveal political identity, which is potentially unlawful in the EU. However, it really needs to be up to a judge to make a decision on that.
In general what they're doing is legal, and the BrowserGate people are using niggling little details, a handful of extensions out of the 6000 probed, to justify this argument. I couldn't say, especially as someone from outside the EU, whether this is actually illegal or not, but it's definitely in a nebulous area at the moment.
Though I agree it's sensationalized in terms of claiming it's "searching your computer" and doing "corporate espionage."