TikTok monitors all keyboard inputs via code in app browser, researcher says

By Christopher Hutton

Published August 19, 2022 4:01pm ET

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TikTok monitors all keyboard inputs via code in app browser, researcher says — TikTok may be tracking the activity of users who leave its platform and go to third-party apps. The video app allegedly tracks all keyboard inputs within TikTok’s “in-app browser” through a piece of extra code that the app puts into third-party websites, according to research released by security analysts. These new details arrived a week […]

TikTok may be tracking the activity of users who leave its platform and go to third-party apps.

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