New Delhi: As the debate rages on about tech companies and apps that can track your data, here comes a website that may reveal that platforms like TikTok and Instagram can access your information, including addresses, passwords, and credit card information, without your consent. How can you potentially view sensitive data? The website, named InAppBrowser.com, has a tool that will tell you that popular social media platforms are “injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites that pose a potential security and privacy risk to the user”.
According to the tool’s developer, Felix Cross, InAppBrowser.com has a simple tool to “list the JavaScript commands executed by an iOS app that renders the page.” “To try this tool yourself, open an app you want to analyze, share the URL, tap the link inside the app to open it, and then read the report on the screen,” he noted. ,ALSO READ: Spying on China-backed hackers, India’s NIC among victims,
InAppBrowser.com is designed for each individual to self-verify what apps are doing inside their in-app browser. Cross said in a blog post, “I decided to open-source the code used for this analysis, you can view it on GitHub. This allows the community to update and improve this script over time.” ” ,ALSO READ: Microsoft reveals why laptop crashes after playing Janet Jackson’s mega-hit song,
He previously warned that Chinese short-form video app TikTok could monitor all keyboard inputs and taps through its in-app browser on iOS. “TikTok’s in-app browser is injecting code to inspect all taps and keyboard input, which can include passwords and credit cards,” he warned.
TikTok said in a statement that Krauss’s findings about the company are “false and misleading.” “Contrary to its claims, we do not collect keystrokes or text input through this code, which is used solely for debugging, troubleshooting and performance monitoring,” the company said.