Using in-app browsers to open links through apps including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok poses a security and privacy risk on mobile devices, says Felix Krause, the Vienna-based founder of Fastlane.
In-app browsers increase security and privacy risksTikTok denies it is storing user data but confirms the existence of code
"The problem is they do have the infrastructure and the systems in place to be able to track all these keystrokes… that on its own is a huge problem.The Vienna-based researcher is the founder of Fastlane, a testing platform for Android and iOS apps, acquired by Google five years ago. "It's alarming to see how much information can be tracked that people aren't aware of–including potentially any user interaction with a website," Mr Davie said.
Mr Krause said apps in their infancy used this data to find errors and debug before scaling and later delete the functionality — something TikTok had failed to do.
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