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Big-name Boston law firm orders associates to get TikTok off their phones

By adamg on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 2:53pm

Above the Law reports Boston-based Ropes & Gray recently told associates to remove TikTok from their phones - even their personal phones, if they use those to connect to the firm's e-mail and case systems. Seems the firm is concerned that the app could phone home with at least some of the contents of the phones - including potentially sensitive client information.

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By downtown-anon on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 3:23pm.

So every app (flashlight or dozens of other seemingly innocuous apps) on your phone has some level of spyware capability. Theoretically you have to give permission to release information to an app. How many apps do clipboard snooping that aren't getting noticed. Good that Apple is at least letting the user knows when it happens.

So TikTok is the most prominent app guilty of this. Are more generalized restrictions around the corner?

By cybah on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 3:39pm.

This is on going.

Some apps are worse than others. And some do it even WITH your permission.

By downtown-anon on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 11:06am.

or without. If I give permission I can hardly fault them for taking advantage. If they read without my permission, that is a problem.

And the clipboard is just data hanging out it the breeze anyway.

By anon on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 3:52pm.

it's chinese spyware

By schneidz on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 11:08am.

... if the users are blindly clikking accept.

i have been installing cyanogen-mod or lineage-os which allows you to override silly permissions.

By dinkus_maximus on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 3:42pm.

How do they get the jokes?

By adamg on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 11:59pm.

It's like every other social network - the olds hear about it and start moving in. Cooper now posts her stuff to YouTube, but she started on TikTok (not that she's old, really, except when compared to what you think of as your basic TikTok user).

By Unemployed Northeastern on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 1:46pm.

If someone goes from college straight to law school, they can pass the bar exam and be at Ropes & Gray before they turn 26. Provided they went to one of the 8 or 10 (out of 205) accredited law schools that Ropes considers appropriately prestigious for their clients, who by and large also went to the same universities for undergrad and business school. But the majority of Ropes' associates today were born in the 1990s. Equity partners are of course much older, but law firm lawyer demographics are steep pyramids, with broad bases and teeny tops.

By Sean north shore. on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 4:44pm.

The military banned Tik Tok from military issued phones, back in January.

By RichM on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 7:02pm.

Advised us not to install it long before that. Shortly after it was released if I recall.
Didn't prohibit it but it was worded as don't even do it.

By schneidz on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 11:03am.

Seems the firm is concerned that the app could phone home with at least some of the contents of the phones - including potentially sensitive client information.

my music player pops up a notification that the app wants to know my location and contact list. why do the app creators (headquartered in l. a.) need to know i am at my girlfriends apartment or that my brothers birthday is september 3rd just so i can listen to the latest sean paul ?