Last week, many of you criticized Instagram and Facebook whenthese apps have been pinned collecting very sensitive personal data such as passwords, bank details or even private photos. Felix Krause, the developer behind this discovery, explained that it is by injecting code into websites visited with the integrated browser of these platforms that publishers monitor you.
However, it turns out that another very popular service behaves like this: you guessed it from reading the title, it is TikTok. More precisely, the app can record all your keystrokes in this way as would akeylogger. The kind of practice often carried out by malicious Internet users and which therefore finds it difficult to justify here…
TikTok reassures
TikTok quickly reacted in a press release published by our colleagues atForbes, explaining simply wishing through thisimprove overall user experience. The social network would therefore have no malicious ambition, which remains to be proven. Instead, the Chinese company's pundits are talking about bug fixes.
How to check that your apps respect your privacy
Krause, for his part, chose to move up a gear and published a tool that allows you to check what publishers offering browsers collect in their apps, often coded withWebKit sometimes also suffers from serious security flaws. To do this, display the linkinappbrowser.comin the platform to be controlled. For example, if you want to check how Twitter is doing, you can send the link to a friend via private message.
Then click on the link, and agree to open it in the app's internal browser (without using Chrome, Safari or Firefox). The page that will open will then explain in detail what information is recorded by the app. We did the test withSlack, the corporate messaging used by many startups, and the result was satisfactory: no unpleasant surprises. What results do you get at home, with other apps?
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