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This is just an overblown yellow-peril panic, right? How does any app paste? By "accessing the user clipboards". How does the chrome omnibox do "text you copied"? By "accessing the user clipboards".
This is just an overblown yellow-peril panic, right? How does any app paste? By "accessing the user clipboards". How does the chrome omnibox do "text you copied"? By "accessing the user clipboards".
It is the OS that should transfer the contents of the clipboard to an app, when the user tells it to do so, and not the other way around. The content of my clipboard shouldn't be any app's business until I decide to paste.
Too little, too late. Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever. Wish the kids could understand that its spyware with access to a lot of toxic social media.
Seems feasible it was a spam check. All my sensitive data is over in a separate work apps launcher anyway. Personally, I find lots of useful content on TikTok. There's a divorce lawyer I've actually called in person. There's a nurse who gives coronavirus tips. There's a Chinese teacher. There's an idol who did a funny hand wash dance without showing a lot of skin and who does funny things with her cats. There's a fit…
How does that apply to children?
Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app? I see a huge bias towards TikTok in headlines
"iOS 14 caught TikTok and other apps spying on the clipboard" [0]
"iOS 14 beta shows apps like TikTok still spy on your iPhone" [1]
There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2]
I may find the explanation why TikTok did that. In China WeChat blocks direct links to their competitors. So apps like Taobao or Douyin have to find a workaround for deeplinks. When you want to share the video from Douyin with a friend in WeChat, Douyin generates the following message.
在东京刚毕业入职三个月的职场小白 搬家找房 坚持更新#日本vlog #东京 https://v.douyin.com/J8ceMYY/ 复制此链接，打开【抖音短视频】，直接观看视频！
In WeChat the link is not clickbale. To see the content user has to copy full text and go to the Douyin. The app will read the clipboard and perform the transition to the video. On the link below you can find the video - explanation [3]
Probably they had re-use some code in TikTok. Definitely they need to be more accurate towards data safety but I don't think they really made a pipeline for spying using clipboard.
There is a lot of buzz around TikTok these days, but I want to get an answer from other apps as well.
[0] https://bgr.com/2020/06/26/ios-14-beta-privacy-features-tikt...
[1] https://mashable.com/article/iphone-ios-14-privacy-clipboard...
I'm happy that ios14 is adding more transparency on whats apps are accessing like this clipboard situation. I'd love to see more of these, like camera roll and mic access.
However we keep talking about TikTok.
Why is that?
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Normal apps wait until the user attempts to perform a paste action to access the clipboard, instead of accessing the clipboard every two seconds.
Malice or just stupidity? I can imagine a dozen different reasons a program might access the clipboard in a loop, all of which reduce to "we are bad programmers".
Great to see another layer of transparency in ios14. Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app? I see a huge bias towards TikTok in headlines "iOS 14 caught TikTok and other apps spying on the clipboard" [0] "iOS 14 beta shows apps like TikTok still spy on your iPhone" [1] There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2] I may find the explanation why T…
Why every app(facebook,twitter,youtube....) of US is banned by China? But China's company can earn money in America?
Why US government allow this happen? They are huge threat to the safe of America!
Great to see another layer of transparency in ios14. Bit I wonder why everyone talking about one specific app? I see a huge bias towards TikTok in headlines "iOS 14 caught TikTok and other apps spying on the clipboard" [0] "iOS 14 beta shows apps like TikTok still spy on your iPhone" [1] There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2] I may find the explanation why T…
This is so ridiculous. Google Maps accesses the clipboard. Try it out: copy an address and open maps. So do Facebook and Instagram, I’m sure. The level of paranoia in the Valley is astounding.