> It gets access to your location, and it knows a ton about what videos you like, but is that really all that useful? The app was regularly accessing the iOS c

> It gets access to your location, and it knows a ton about what videos you like, but is that really all that useful? The app was regularly accessing the iOS clipboard (multiple times per minute), at least until iOS started telling users every time an app did that. > But I'm unclear on just what kind of surveillance they think is going on here, or why the Chinese government would find it especially useful. It doesn't have to be useful or make sense to be objectionable. If the government wanted to know what color socks I'm wearing and designed a surveillance apparatus to collect that information without my consent, I would still object to it when I found out, even though that information seems utterly useless.