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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Bitcoin Forum => Bitcoin News & Updates => Topic started by: Tnoy30 on June 30, 2020, 01:53:49 AM
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Why are TikTok and other apps pulling data from your clipboard? The iOS 14 beta isn’t letting them hide it anymore.
Last week’s release of Apple’s iOS 14 developer beta for iPhone has made it more obvious than ever that many popular iOS apps are reading your clipboard data even when they have no clear reason to—and they can do so from other nearby Apple devices, too.
The alarm was first sounded back in March when researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry reported that social video sensation TikTok and dozens of other apps were regularly recalling data from the iOS and iPadOS clipboard, even when you’re not in a text input box. And as Ars Technica pointed out in a recent report, that data could potentially include Bitcoin addresses or other sensitive financial information.
Read on: https://decrypt.co/33998/tiktok-snooping-bitcoin-addresses-clipboard-data