TikTok ‘didn’t store’ iPhone clipboard data

By 2020-06-29Science & Tech
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Social media platform TikTok has told the BBC it did not receive or store any data from Apple iPhone clipboards.

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

TikTok was one of 53 apps that security researchers had previously flagged as regularly seeking clipboard access.

TikTok said it introduced the move to stop people spamming the platform by copying and pasting the same content.

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