In June 2020, it was revealed that TikTok scans the user’s clipboard every few seconds, even when the app is running in the background.19 The company promised to stop doing this (after a new iOS security feature caught it in the act), but if you used TikTok before the summer of 2020, you can assume that everything you’ve copied and pasted on your phone since you started using the app is now stored on a database in China under your name.
