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A comment on iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes. Parent comment

Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev... by WA on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:16AM (#23637441)
> Fine-grained permissions aren’t useful if an application is going to request access to everything anyway

If you build it right, it is totally doable. Implement it like in Health so that the app just gets empty data and doesn’t really know if it has access or not.

If the app doesn’t function properly with an empty data set, reject such an app through App Store guidelines.

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Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev... by jmiserez on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:09AM (#23637718)
What the parent poster means is that the second step (enforcement through rejection) won't work anymore.
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