This reads for me like:
As an example of this I go to the shooting range every Friday, just for fun, as you can see it on this picture I published on FB, that's why I didn't shoot my neighbour.
He may be right, but that's not an evidence. And we are talking about a company acting like a con man since ages.
I don't have any reason to not believe their explanation. And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else. Many other apps are doing it as well and a few of them gave the same explanation.
But, that doesn't mean that copying clipboard is a good idea. I don't like any app to copy my clipboard. I also don't like it that apps/companies don't respect any boundaries unless it's forced/blocked by the OS. They just try too hard to reach where they don't need to reach.
If there wasn't enough restriction from the OS, surely someone has already came up with a "creative" idea to detect spammers using front camera or reading device storage and a lot of apps were using it. I don't like it that companies aren't sensitive about user rights and what users feel about what they are doing.
Why not? They've been engaging in very, very dark gray area things before.
> And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else.
Don't you ever copy paste anything mildly interesting, like email-addresses, phone numbers to add to your address book, form contents before submitting a form in case the site is terrible and resets the form on error etc? I'm sure they'd love to get their hand on that information, as it'll allow for data mining to better "understand you".