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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 23 2020, @02:43PM   Printer-friendly

TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban

TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over its executive order banning transactions between U.S. companies and the popular video-sharing app as well as its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.

"Even though we strongly disagree with the Administration's concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution," a TikTok spokesperson told The Hill. "What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the Administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses," the spokesperson continued. "To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system," the spokesperson added.

Also at NYT and Business Insider.

Previously: Bytedance: The World's Most Valuable Startup
Lawmakers Ask US Intelligence to Assess If TikTok is a Security Threat
TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data
India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps
President Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Microsoft Considers Buying TikTok's U.S. Operations[Updated 2]
TikTok: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions with Bytedance Beginning September 20


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 24 2020, @01:02AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2020, @01:02AM (#1040977) Journal

    The OS should not let random apps read the clipboard.
    ...
    Evidently iOS leaved the decision open to the app, instead of being responsible itself.

    Can you imagine a copy/paste operation going through the step of "Did you really want to paste this that was copied from {app1} into {app2}? You know, it may send the data to China, or to NSA, or..., and Apple would rather not be liable for that. Read the 100 legalese-pages in the DISCLAIMER section of EULA and ack on it"?

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday August 24 2020, @03:23AM (3 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2020, @03:23AM (#1041016) Homepage Journal

    I can see the clipboard contents being inaccessible to a process until the user does the paste operation.
    I is a security flaw for the process trying to receive the data to be given the responsibility of deciding what user actions constitute a paste operation.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 24 2020, @03:43AM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2020, @03:43AM (#1041025) Journal

      I can see the clipboard contents being inaccessible to a process until the user does the paste operation.

      Which part of the whole software stack (app, OS) decides it's a paste operation?
      It's not like one pastes only a text, there are cases in which structured data (even binary) need to be transferred between applications through clipboard.

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      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday August 24 2020, @04:13AM (1 child)

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 24 2020, @04:13AM (#1041038) Homepage Journal

        Which part of the whole software stack (app, OS) decides it's a paste operation?

        That is the question, isn't it. The software that does that is a trusted component.

        iOS and Android are in the business of protecting apps against each other. They can't trust those apps to make this decision.

        • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 27 2020, @12:51PM

          by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 27 2020, @12:51PM (#1042644) Homepage Journal

          Apple, with its fetish for draconian control of its ecosystem (dating back to the UI requirements on independent developers for the original Macintosh), should have no problems with imposing the restrictions that only the OS can make this decision.