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New York City is banning TikTok from city-owned devices and requiring agencies to remove the app within the next 30 days.

The directive issued Wednesday comes after a review by the NYC Cyber Command, which a city official said found that TikTok “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” Starting immediately, city employees are barred from downloading or using the app and accessing TikTok’s website from any city-owned devices.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Tiktok scans your clipboard. If there is any confidential stuff you want to copy, pls don't use Tiktok.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 15 points 1 year ago

...don’t use Tiktok.

I agree completely.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't use TikTok, and there are a ton of reasons to be concerned about sending massive amounts of data to corporations, especially when they're state associated, but a very large amount of apps scan your clipboard.

Have you ever had an app text you a one time use code, and automatically input it? That app scans your clipboard. Facebook, Instagram, X, all scan your clipboard.

I see this brought up a lot and it just seems like the wrong argument against TikTok.

[–] schroedingershat 2 points 1 year ago

All of those are espionage channels for unaccountable, non-democratic organisations with a history of interfering with democracies and funding coups. All should be considered equally malicious.

[–] _wintermute 0 points 1 year ago

Sir, ignorance is always the best argument /s

At least that's what I'm shown time and again on the internet...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't show any more private than Facebook, Instagram and X. Also you should aware that you are mixing up a legitimate usecase of the clipboard than a more malicious usecase. Tiktok also repeatedly scans the clipboard instead of a one time thing for SMS codes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I Don't use tiktok but that is wild...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All of your apps do that. It's not something exclusive to tiktok. There are plenty of other reasons to ban it, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Android sends alerts if an app reads data from your clipboard.