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Re:Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hi... by fiatpandas on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:23PM (#17412380)
Would also like to know this. And even if you did allow access, there would be the big red recording bar shown at the top of your screen when activated, right?
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Re:Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hi... by rnet85 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:18AM (#17414506)
Nope, just tried this https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js on safari on my iphone. It just asks for permission, after that there is no indication that it's listening or not
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Re:Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hi... by coolspot on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:26PM (#17425985)
Tried the same. It has red microphone indicator in the URL bar.

Safari, iOS 11.4

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Re:Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hi... by Karunamon on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:25PM (#17413846)
This is my understanding as well. Even if something has permissions granted to it by default as the system apps do, they’ll still show usage.
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