BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs

**BrowserGate alleges LinkedIn scans visitors' browsers for thousands of extensions and tools, potentially profiling one billion users and linking software fingerprints to real identities and employers; the report claims this enables sensitive inferences and corporate espionage and may involve sharing data with third parties, while LinkedIn denies wrongdoing and says the scans are for anti-scraping and security.**