You may have read a week or so ago that TikTok is reading clipboard data on your iPhone (and presumably sending it back to Beijing?). Before you start banning Chinese apps, it may be worth taking a breath and reading about the other 52 apps taking advantage of the clipboard that is "designed to be silently readable by any app". Today, Reddit and Linked in announced that they will stop copying the data (and presumably sending it back to Washington or Redmond?). Here's the full list of apps discovered (there are probably many more), including the list of those who have stopped. This is why, when I use my mobile phone, I access these services through my Firefox web browser.
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