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Title: LinkedIn iOS App Found Reading Clipboard Content After Ever Keystroke, Company Says Its a Bug
Post by: HCK on July 05, 2020, 04:05:22 pm
LinkedIn iOS App Found Reading Clipboard Content After Ever Keystroke, Company Says Its a Bug

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A small change from Apple in iOS 14 has in many ways opened the pandora’s box and revealed the shady tactics employed by many apps of silently reading clipboard data in the background. A number of popular apps including TikTok were caught constantly reading clipboard data and with Apple’s name and shame approach in iOS 14, they were forced to acknowledge and fix the issue. Now, the LinkedIn iOS app has also been found reading and copying content from the clipboard on iPhones and iPads in iOS 14.
 
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