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TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data

Posted on June 28, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Dan Goodin reports:

In March, researchers uncovered a troubling privacy grab by more than four dozen iOS apps including TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media and video-sharing phenomenon that has taken the Internet by storm. Despite TikTok vowing to curb the practice, it continues to access some of Apple users’ most sensitive data, which can include passwords, cryptocurrency wallet addresses, account-reset links, and personal messages. Another 53 apps identified in March haven’t stopped either.

Read more on Ars Technica.

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