TikTok is spying on you via the clipboard, researchers warn iPhone users

John Leonard
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Social media app monitors the universal clipboard and can use it to pinpoint location

Security researchers have found that the TikTok iPhone app is spying on its users by secretly reading the clipboard. The vulnerability, resulting from the fact that iOS and iPadOS apps have unre...

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