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iOS14 Catches Apps Spying on Your Clipboard

Ryan Jones · 183.1K views · 2020-06-23 · 0:36

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Overview

A one-minute demonstration of iOS 14's new paste notification, which revealed popular apps silently reading the clipboard each time they were opened. It credits the mysk research write-up.

On Hacker News

HN cites it as evidence that many mainstream apps, not just TikTok, were snooping on clipboard contents.

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Privacy, surveillance & cybercrimeSecurity & hacking
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xster · 2020-12 · Reference

It was "caught" because that's the only one the consent manufacturers reported on. [VIDEO] Most of the apps in your home screen did it when the beta came out from NYTimes to Google News to Chrome to AccuWeather etc. TikTok shows a pop-up preview of the TikTok link you have in your clipboard when you open TikTok. It might be that, it might be more. But it's certainly not more special than other apps.

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ourcat · 2020-07 · Reference

When I saw this video of a lot more apps doing it, I did wonder if it actually might be a commonly used third-party library causing this. It's certainly possible. [VIDEO]

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xster · 2020-07 · Reference

[VIDEO] Here's a rundown of just general apps that would be on everyone's home screens doing the same thing.

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