The company said then that this was for an anti-spam feature, but promised it would be removed in a future update. TikTok was one of a number of apps recently found to be reading user clipboards. The company did say that it has not shared data with the Chinese government.
TikTok itself said that the code was removed as part of a clean-up of unused features, but didn’t elaborate on its purpose. “It’s not realistic for anybody to say that they’re not going to use any Chinese servers, ever,” Mr. Plenty of apps have legitimate reasons for relying on some Chinese servers - for example, if they have users in Asian countries and want to stream video to them quickly in a cost-effective manner. Patrick Jackson, the chief technology officer of Disconnect, said that while he did not witness any data transmission by the app to Chinese server computers, he found the existence and subsequent removal of the code suspicious.īut Sinan Eren, the chief executive of Fyde, a security firm in Palo Alto, Calif., said the references to servers in China did not alarm him. Last weekend, Disconnect reviewed the app’s latest version and saw that the lines of code referring to Chinese servers had been removed. In July, the app’s code contained references to servers in China.
Two security researchers have given very different perspectives on whether or not this raises any privacy concerns …ĭisconnect, a San Francisco security firm, analyzed the code of the TikTok app for iOS.
Analysis of the TikTok app revealed references to Chinese servers in the code, which was subsequently removed in an update.
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