TikTok can access the content of your device's clipboard (copied text, images, or videos) when you use certain features, such as pasting or sharing content.
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Clipboard content can include sensitive information such as passwords, bank account numbers, personal notes, or other data copied from other apps that is incidentally accessible during a TikTok action.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify which functions trigger clipboard access, making the full operational scope of this provision uncertain from the policy text alone.
The updated policy changed the controlling entity from TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC to TikTok Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-registered company. The U.S.-specific privacy policy language was replaced with terms covering "other regions." Users previously governed under U.S. privacy protections are now subject to different jurisdictional terms.
View change record →When you paste or share content through TikTok, the app accesses your full clipboard, which may contain sensitive information from other apps that you did not intend to share with TikTok.
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Your organization may allow you to access and export your data in order to back it up or transfer it to a service outside of Google.
Access information about you consistent with legal requirements. In addition, you may have the right in some cases to receive or have your electronic information transferred to another party.
If you do not want us to have this access, you should not consent to support through the remote access tool, and we will assist you through other means.
"We may access content, including text, images, and video, found in your device's clipboard, with your permission. For example, if you choose to initiate content sharing with a third-party platform, or choose to paste content from the clipboard into the Platform, we access this information stored in your clipboard in order to fulfill your request.Excerpt from TikTok Ads's TikTok Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Clipboard access has been a subject of enforcement attention by Apple and Google, which have implemented system-level notifications when apps access clipboard content.
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Clipboard content can include sensitive information such as passwords, bank account numbers, personal notes, or other data copied from other apps that is incidentally accessible during a TikTok action.
When you paste or share content through TikTok, the app accesses your full clipboard, which may contain sensitive information from other apps that you did not intend to share with TikTok.
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