More scandals on TikTok
The last Keynote of the WWDC of Apple left many new features in sight. iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 improve a lot in many aspects, and one of those aspects is privacy A field in which Apple knows that it wins and that they have wanted to go much further to protect their users.
Although in the presentation many novelties remained in the pipeline, little by little they have come to light. And one of the important innovations related to privacy was a new warning that indicated when an app accessed the clipboard of our iPhone or iPad
TikTok is one of the many apps that has been exposed by accessing the clipboard
This has meant that many applications have been exposed, coming to light that many of them access the clipboard and copy and paste its content without any kind of consent. And one of these applications that do it is the popular app TikTok.
TikTok has recently been involved in numerous incidents related to bugs, hacks and security issues But, after being exposed in iOS 14, it has made public its intention to stop accessing and pasting the clipboard, unless users themselves copy or paste something in the app.
But iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, not only have they exposed TikTok On the contrary. With the beta for developers, many people who have tested the betas are making public through Twitter and other social networks that many apps access our clipboard, with all that that can entail.
Google Chrome accessing and copying from clipboard
In fact, in the last few hours a video related to this topic has become popular. In it you can see how the user copies an image from the app Messages and, when opening numerous apps, you can see at the top that these apps are accessing the clipboard Quite worrisome.
After seeing this, we can't help but thank Apple for including this feature. And although we users can be very happy about it, we are sure that some developers will not be so happy.
