Fact · Voice privacy and security
8vendors with critical flaws
Citizen Lab found critical vulnerabilities in keyboard apps from eight of the nine vendors it tested in 2024.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Our analysis revealed critical vulnerabilities in keyboard apps from eight out of the nine vendors”
Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, 2024, Summary.
Open the original- What it measures
- The flaws let a network eavesdropper read what users type while the keystrokes travel from the keyboard app to its server.
- What it does not show
- The flaw concerns interception of keystrokes in transit by a network eavesdropper, not the vendor reading the text. The result does not show that any particular keyboard sends your typing to its maker.