add clipboard section to FAQ

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Daniel Micay 2020-05-02 21:49:53 -04:00
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<li> <li>
<a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a> <a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a>
<ul> <ul>
<li><a href="#clipboard">Can apps spy on the clipboard in the background
or inject content into it?</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware <li><a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware
identifiers?</a></li> identifiers?</a></li>
<li><a href="#non-hardware-identifiers">What about non-hardware identifiers?</a></li> <li><a href="#non-hardware-identifiers">What about non-hardware identifiers?</a></li>
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<a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a> <a href="#security-and-privacy">Security and privacy</a>
</h2> </h2>
<h3 id="clipboard">
<a href="#clipboard">Can apps spy on the clipboard in the background or inject
content into it?</a>
</h3>
<p>As of Android 10, only the configured default input method editor (your keyboard of
choice) and the currently focused app can access the clipboard. Apps without focus
cannot access the clipboard. This is a stricter restriction than preventing apps in
the background from accessing it, since an app in the foreground or a foreground
service cannot access it, only the foreground app that's currently focused. Clipboard
managers need to be implemented by the keyboard chosen as the default by the user.</p>
<p>GrapheneOS previously restricted background clipboard access as a much earlier and
slightly less strict implementation of this feature. It provided a toggle for users to
whitelist clipboard managers, which is no longer needed now that keyboards are
expected to provide it.</p>
<h3 id="hardware-identifiers"> <h3 id="hardware-identifiers">
<a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware identifiers?</a> <a href="#hardware-identifiers">Can apps access hardware identifiers?</a>
</h3> </h3>