According to Digital Trends, the first public beta of iOS 14 revealed that TikTok is still accessing the clipboard of its iPhone wielding subscribers. TikTok is the extremely popular short-form video app that has had its share of controversy. At times TikTok has been the most popular app in the App Store and the Google Play Store. But the Peterson Institute for International Economics called it a “Huawei-sized problem” in terms of security issues. And last November TikTok parent Beijing ByteDance Technology Co. was being investigated by the U.S. government for failing to have its $1 billion purchase of Musical.ly vetted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The latter is supposed to investigate the purchase of a U.S. firm by a foreign company.
In February, a pair of developers found a problem with the copy paste system in iOS that left sensitive information unprotected. One of the developers who discovered this issue, Tommy Mysk, told Digital Trends that as of WWDC 2020, the problem was fixed thanks to a feature in iOS 14 that shows a banner alert to iPhone users when an app is reading a user’s iPhone clipboard. The Telegraph reports that when the beta version of iOS 14 was released earlier this month, users started receiving notifications revealing that apps like AccuWeather, AliExpress, Call of Duty Mobile, Google News, Overstock, Patreon, and yes, TikTok. Jeremy Burge, the “Chief Emoji Officer” at Emojipedia posted on his Twitter account how often TikTok accessed his iPhone clipboard. The video shows that every one-to three taps TikTok was trying to grab the contents of Burge’s clipboard. Everytime TikTok attempted this act, Jeremy was warned. Another video posted by Ryan Jones shows how iOS 14 warns users when their clipboard is being spied on.
Okay so TikTok is grabbing the contents of my clipboard every 1-3 keystrokes. iOS 14 is snitching on it with the new paste notification pic.twitter.com/OSXP43t5SZ
— Jeremy Burge (@jeremyburge) June 24, 2020
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