Reddit and LinkedIn to stop copying iPhone clipboards

By 2020-07-06Science & Tech
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Reddit and LinkedIn are changing their apps to prevent them from looking at the Apple iPhone clipboard.

In a developer trial of the latest update to the phone’s operating system, iOS 14, users are notified whenever an app accesses the device’s copied text.

The notification exposed frequent scanning of the clipboard by apps that many users thought should not need to do so.

The two firms follow TikTok in changing their apps amid the criticism.

A senior exec at LinkedIn tweeted that the code which enabled this had now been removed ... Read even more

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