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Re:Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll the... by alkonaut on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:29PM (#21518907)
A good start that would be trivial on ALL smartphones would be to simply notify when the camera and mic is active by using an icon. This is already the case for Location services, I can't see why it could be used for audio/video recording. Add to that an Audit log where I can see that application so and so used the camera at time X, and I'm at least able to tell whether I have been spied on after the fact so I can get rid of the application in question.
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Re:Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll the... by mlacks on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:27PM (#21520283)
The iPhone does this, at least for the mic. Cortana would randomly turn on the mic even while I wasn't in the app, when I opened the app it stopped. I uninstalled it.
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Re:Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll the... by LinuxBender on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:54PM (#21519131)
That is a good start. That said, anything done in software can be conditionally disabled. So this assumes that the malicious behavior does not have root level access on the phone. But I agree, it is a start and is much easier and cheaper than requiring hardware changes.
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