Tik Tok automatically collects user data, is it worth worrying about?
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Loading... - Junko Uchida
- 01 Jul 2022
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In this warning, Tik Tok is on the list of 53 other popular apps that, after running a test on the newly released iOS 14 operating system for iPhone, "was exposed" to collecting data on the device. user from the clipboard.
However, with Tik Tok, an application that is quite popular today in many countries with over 500 million users, it was also found to constantly scan data on users' devices from the clipboard.
Tik Tok then had to remove this feature in a new app update on the AppStore app market, and said the feature was not enabled on devices running the Android operating system.
According to security expert Vo Do Thang - Director of Athena Cyber ​​Security Center, the current situation is that most mobile applications collect user data. There are applications that take time to collect data, there are applications that continuously scan and collect data.
But there are also many applications, when the user first downloads and uses it, there is no problem, it is not until the later updates that the data collection feature is added to the application, so most users do not. know well.
The image depicts Tik Tok collecting data from the clipboard on the user's device.
However, according to this expert, the more important issue is how the data collection is stored and used for what. Many applications, when exposed to the collection of user data, use the pretext to "improve the quality of the user experience". Read More...
