TikTok is one of the most popular social media applications at the moment, registering a spectacular increase in the number of downloads, but also in new users, but unfortunately the application is starting to reveal the problems that many were talking about in the past.
TikTok was caught spying on the iPhone's clipboard, iOS 14 revealing that the application accesses information copied by users and stored in the clipboard to insert them into various applications on their phones, and this practice is very old.
TikTok it basically spied on any kind of texts, or links, that iPhone users copied from one app to insert into another app, regardless of what kind of information it was, and it did so non-stop for that Apple allowed this.
TikTok she was caught doing this very badly, and she promised to stop after people started complaining about not wanting to be spied on by the messaging app, and the Chinese promised to fulfill this demand.
Hey @tiktok_us, why do you paste from my clipboard every time I type a LETTER in your comment box? Shout out to iOS 14 for shining a light on this HUGE invasion of privacy. inb4 they say it was a "bug" pic.twitter.com/MHv10PmzZS
— Maxel (@MaxelAmador) June 25, 2020
TikTok says that it implemented this spying technique to discover the "spam" made in its platform, but because it is an application made by a company in China, this explanation is as valid as the trust it should have anyone in the applications from the Chinese.
