OnePlus 5, OnePlus 5T get new OxygenOS open beta Removes Clipboard function.
OnePlus has rolled out Oxygen OS open beta 3 for OnePlus 5T and OxygenOS Open beta 5 for the older OnePlus 5 smartphone. Both open beta builds will remove the Clipboard functionality, which was under scanner after French security researcher called Elliot Alderson who runs the Twitter handle @fs0c131y
alleged that the file in the OxygenOS beta clipboard app called badwords.txt was helping the company identify some data and sending it back to a Chinese server without user consent.
OnePlus at the time had denied all these claims and issued a statement saying, “There’s been a false claim that the Clipboard app has been sending user data to a server. The code is entirely inactive in the open beta for OxygenOS, our global operating system. No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS… Local data in this folder is skipped over and not sent to any server.”
Now, the latest open beta builds on both phones removes the Clipboard function entirely. According to OnePlus forum post, OxygenOS beta 3 for OnePlus 5T, the changelog includes general bug fixes and improvements, removes clipboard function, and includes changes to phone app.
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