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Apart from TikTok, 53 More Applications Do Clipboard Tracking

WWDC 2020, the event postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and long awaited by technology enthusiasts, started at the beginning of the week.

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Apart from TikTok, 53 More Applications Do Clipboard Tracking
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WWDC 2020, the event postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and long awaited by technology enthusiasts, started at the beginning of the week.

The event, which was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and has been eagerly awaited by technology enthusiasts for a long time. WWDC 2020, It happened at the beginning of the week. While all eyes were on Apple, the company informed its fans about many innovations and the new features were successfully introduced. The curious iOS 14 update was also one of those introduced. One of the biggest benefits of the new mobile operating system iOS 14 iPhone It was a privacy feature developed to give users more control over which applications can access which data on the device.

After this small launch, the new update its beta People who downloaded and started using it realized that the world-famous video sharing platform TikTok was one of the applications that read the texts that users copied to the clipboard and violated privacy in this sense. It was seen that the privacy warning offered by Apple with the new version was on the screen as long as the TikTok application was open. This situation both disturbed the users and left questions and concerns about TikTok violating personal data. TikTok In his statement, he underlined that such a situation did not exist and stated firmly that he did not copy data from the clipboard.

New applications have emerged:

While the privacy feature of iOS 14, which has made a big impact since the day it was introduced, was the subject of such news and left TikTok in a difficult situation, another news came from security researcher Tommy Mysk. The researcher noted that TikTok was not alone in collecting data from the dashboard, and that 53 applications He stated that there were more. Applications include news applications such as Fox News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bejeweled, Fruit Ninja, PUBG Mobile games like, Viber, Weibo, social networks like Zoosk and even AccuWeather and utilities like Overstock.

Same apps Android There is currently no data on how it behaves in the operating system. Experts continue their research on this subject. Users are warned not to copy sensitive data unless necessary and to clean it when they do.

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