Microsoft is running one of thelargest corporate espionage operations in history

[AribertDeckers]

2.4.2026
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in history

Microsoft is organized crime. Now an espionage operation by Microsoft is uncovered.


BrowserGate has the full story. This here is only to give you a glimpse of what is going on.

So, do go to https://browsergate.eu/ to get the details!


https://browsergate.eu/

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        Executive Summary (TL;DR)
        What is BrowserGate?
        How it works
        The Evidence Pack
        Why it's illegal
        The deeper problem
        Scanned Extensions Database
        Take action!
        Updates
        About & Credits

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        Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.
    Who we are
    What we found
        Mass breach of personal data
        Corporate espionage and trade secret theft
        Deceiving EU regulators
        Shipping your data to third parties
    Why we need you
    Table of Content

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
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.
This is illegal and potentially a criminal offense in every jurisdiction we have examined.

(If you you're in a hurry -> read our Executive Summary)
Who we are

Fairlinked e.V. is an association of commercial LinkedIn users. We represent the professionals who use LinkedIn, the businesses that invest in and depend on the platform, and the toolmakers who build products for it.

BrowserGate is our investigation and campaign to document one of the largest corporate espionage and data breach scandals in digital history, to inform the public and regulators, to collect evidence, and to raise funds for the legal proceedings required to stop it.
What we found
Mass breach of personal data

LinkedIn's scan reveals the religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities, and job search activity of identified individuals. LinkedIn scans for extensions that identify practicing Muslims, extensions that reveal political orientation, extensions built for neurodivergent users, and 509 job search tools that expose who is secretly looking for work on the very platform where their current employer can see their profile.

Under EU law, this category of data is not regulated. It is prohibited. LinkedIn has no consent, no disclosure, and no legal basis. Its privacy policy does not mention any of this.
Corporate espionage and trade secret theft

LinkedIn scans for over 200 products that directly compete with its own sales tools, including Apollo, Lusha, and ZoomInfo. Because LinkedIn knows each user's employer, it can map which companies use which competitor products. It is extracting the customer lists of thousands of software companies from their users' browsers without anyone's knowledge.

Then it uses what it finds. LinkedIn has already sent enforcement threats to users of third-party tools, using data obtained through this covert scanning to identify its targets.
Deceiving EU regulators

In 2023, the EU designated LinkedIn as a regulated gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act and ordered it to open its platform to third-party tools. LinkedIn's response:

It published two restricted APIs and presented them to the European Commission as compliance. Together, these APIs handle approximately 0.07 calls per second. Meanwhile, LinkedIn already operates an internal API called Voyager that powers every LinkedIn web and mobile product at 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report to the EU, the word "API" appears 533 times. "Voyager" appears zero times.

At the same time, LinkedIn expanded its surveillance of the exact tools the regulation was designed to protect. The scan list grew from roughly 461 products in 2024 to over 6,000 by February 2026. The EU told LinkedIn to let third-party tools in. LinkedIn built a surveillance system to find and punish every user of those tools.
Shipping your data to third parties

LinkedIn loads an invisible tracking element from HUMAN Security (formerly PerimeterX), an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm, zero pixels wide, hidden off-screen, that sets cookies on your browser without your knowledge. A separate fingerprinting script runs from LinkedIn's own servers. A third script from Google executes silently on every page load. All of it encrypted. None of it disclosed.
Why we need you

Microsoft has 33,000 employees and a $15 billion legal budget. We have the evidence. What we need is people and funding to hold them accountable.

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Table of Content
Executive Summary

Introduction - What is BrowserGate?

The Attack: How it works

The Evidence Pack

Why it's illegal and potentially criminal

This Is Not Just a Privacy Violation

Credits

Last modified March 6, 2026
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[AribertDeckers]

20.4.2026
DO STOP MICROSOFT ROUTING YOUR DATA !

https://x.com/TutaPrivacy/status/2046134854199234697

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Tuta @TutaPrivacy

🚨⏳ Act now! Microsoft just enabled flex routing for Copilot users in the EU - and you're opted in automatically!

This means your data can be processed outside of the EU.

Turn if off now: Copilot → Settings → Flex routing → Do not allow flex routing

Even better, cancel Copilot. Here's why: https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft
-copilot-reads-confidential-business-mail

#Copilot #MicrosoftAI #BigTech
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