A guy on reddit reversed engineered #TikTok

Here’s what he found on the data it collects on you

It’s far worse than just stealing what’s on your clipboard:
Just going to link this here about India banning #tiktok

https://twitter.com/zeenewsenglish/status/1277623927569670144?s=21 https://twitter.com/ZeeNewsEnglish/status/1277623927569670144
Here’s the Penetrum research link (should be the fifth link down):

https://penetrum.com/research 
Here's a decent write up of what all of this "Security risk mumbo jumbo" could mean:
Adding this response to the thread from @wbm312 (Whitney Merrill), a privacy and Infosec lawyer, who’s well educated in the subject matter https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1277781594174971904?s=21
Adding a video where the twitter user has iOS 14 beta

He’s recording how, as he types, every 1-3 characters later, #TikTok is “pastin” whatever is on his clipboard somewhere

Please read his analysis thread, this is also scary if truly nefarious:

https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275832600146391042?s=21 https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275832600146391042
Someone tweeted at me a recording of the various IP connections that Tik Tok uses on his android device using a firewall app

I’m going to add it to the thread in case someone wants to do more research or test the findings for themselves:

https://twitter.com/yungdubs/status/1278358144163418113?s=21 https://twitter.com/yungdubs/status/1278358144163418113
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