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sl8

(13,931 posts) Tue Jul 28, 2020, 08:15 AM Jul 2020

Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security

From https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-campaign-tells-staffers-to-delete-tiktok-from-phone-report-2020-7

Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security and privacy concerns

Tyler Sonnemaker 14 hours ago

Joe Biden's campaign told staffers to "refrain from using and downloading TikTok" on their personal and work phones, first reported by Bloomberg Monday and confirmed by Business Insider.

Biden's top lawyer told staffers in an email to avoid using the popular social media app due to security and privacy concerns, according to Bloomberg.

TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny from US government officials who worry that its Chinese parent company ByteDance could cave to censorship or data requests from Beijing.

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Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2020 OP

Good soothsayer Jul 2020 #1

My smartphone's security app alerted me that the TicTock app reads my "clipboard" contents... NurseJackie Jul 2020 #2

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1. Good

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 08:16 AM

Jul 2020

NurseJackie

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2. My smartphone's security app alerted me that the TicTock app reads my "clipboard" contents...

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 08:18 AM

Jul 2020

My smartphone's security app alerted me that the TicTock app reads my "clipboard" contents... apparently without permission, but it's not clear what the app is doing with that info.

My clipboard could contain emails that I've copied-pasted... or passwords... or URL that I'm sharing... anything.

The Biden Campaign is being very smart.

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