LinkedIn's clipboard copying comes at a time when several companies are in the news for similar behavior. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Earlier this week, TikTok found itself in hot water for snooping clipboard data on iPhone handsets, which it tried to justify as a fraud detection feature. Following the backlash, TikTok said it would ...

Smartphones have put a lot of power into our hands, literally, but they have also exposed potential security and privacy violations in things we've been taking for granted on desktops. Things like ...

Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 has found two more apps that controversially copy the contents of the user’s clipboard ⁠– professional networking platform and job search website LinkedIn, and popular online ...

Reddit is fixing its iOS app after an iOS 14 beta tester discovered that the app was copying the contents from users’ clipboards. The clipboard copying appears to have been an accident. In a statement ...

A hot potato: Video-sharing social network service TikTok was already popular before the lockdowns, and its userbase saw even more growth during the last three months, but developer ByteDance's ...

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is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. LinkedIn plans to stop its app from repeatedly copying the contents of an iOS device’s clipboard, ...

You probably use your computer copy and paste some text, a link, or an image from one place to another dozens of times a day. You probably don’t even think about it. That is, until something goes ...