• Sep 23, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Social Media, Surveillance,

Facebook faces lawsuit for spying on Instagram users with camera

Facebook is facing a lawsuit which alleges that the Instagram app spied on users through their cameras. Earlier this year, an update to iOS which included privacy warnings when an app does things like open the camera or access the clipboard called out the Instagram app accessing the camera unexpectedly while the app was open. … Continue reading “Facebook faces lawsuit for spying on Instagram users with camera”

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  • Jun 25, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media,

TikTok seems to be copying and pasting your clipboard with every keystroke

A new privacy feature in iOS 14 has revealed that TikTok is copying the contents of your clipboard with every keystroke. The new feature – called paste notifications – shows that TikTok is inspecting the clipboard with each new keystroke, and it’s possible that they’re also grabbing the contents and storing it for later to … Continue reading “TikTok seems to be copying and pasting your clipboard with every keystroke”

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