<story><title>iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes</title><url>https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>From my perspective it seems like Apple keeps releasing new privacy features and Android keeps being forced to catch up. What are the major privacy enhancements that Google has put out first?</text></item><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve only ever been an Android user, but for a while I was paying a lot of attention to iOS too. It seems to me like they&amp;#x27;ve been back and forthing, as one side figures out some improvements, the other side more-or-less re-implements them on their next release with their own unrelated improvements.&lt;p&gt;Seems like a good thing, really.</text></item><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy&amp;#x2F;permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.</text></item><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot; also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it&amp;#x27;s awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I categorize this as another reason why &amp;quot;just trust us,&amp;quot; just isn&amp;#x27;t acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership.  Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users&amp;#x27; data with respect given the option of: profit or privacy.&lt;p&gt;(sourced from reddit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;apple&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;hejb9i&amp;#x2F;ios14_catches_apps_spying_on_your_clipboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;apple&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;hejb9i&amp;#x2F;ios14_catches...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>platinumrad</author><text>Android blocked background clipboard access in 2019.</text></comment>
<story><title>iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes</title><url>https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>From my perspective it seems like Apple keeps releasing new privacy features and Android keeps being forced to catch up. What are the major privacy enhancements that Google has put out first?</text></item><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve only ever been an Android user, but for a while I was paying a lot of attention to iOS too. It seems to me like they&amp;#x27;ve been back and forthing, as one side figures out some improvements, the other side more-or-less re-implements them on their next release with their own unrelated improvements.&lt;p&gt;Seems like a good thing, really.</text></item><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy&amp;#x2F;permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.</text></item><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot; also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it&amp;#x27;s awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I categorize this as another reason why &amp;quot;just trust us,&amp;quot; just isn&amp;#x27;t acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership.  Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users&amp;#x27; data with respect given the option of: profit or privacy.&lt;p&gt;(sourced from reddit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;apple&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;hejb9i&amp;#x2F;ios14_catches_apps_spying_on_your_clipboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;apple&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;hejb9i&amp;#x2F;ios14_catches...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickyeon</author><text>Sorry, I don&amp;#x27;t have a history of this here. I&amp;#x27;m running off my sense of a fair portion of the time when I hear &amp;quot;this new privacy feature coming to iOS&amp;quot; I think &amp;quot;oh I&amp;#x27;ve had that for a little while&amp;quot;, and the rest of the time something equivalent shows up later for Android.</text></comment>