Whether it's enabled or not, Lidar is military-grade tech that has no place on most cell phones,
Let's not act like the entire industry isn't heavily invested in data collection... It does damage to real discussions about privacy and consumer protection for everyone.
You can get Lidar on all sorts of civilian applications, from height mapping on drone photography, to driving assistance on cars. The lidar on phones is over-kill, depth mapping in photos or cheap crappy AR are not great use cases, but that doesn't make it a privacy problem.
encryption is military-grade tech too.
Anything painted green and sold for 10x the price is military grade.
https://www.opentopography.org/blog/iphone-lidar-application...
How about the touch screen/keyboard?
Lidar is completely different tech that can scan an entire room, faces of everyone in it without their consent, and even devices and products in the room with you, even things out of camera view.
Vastly more invasive, and most people are completely unaware it is on phones now and what it can do.
C'mon man... It's not an argument point, it's necessary privacy threat awareness.
Lidar will struggle with items in the room as it is simply an depth detection tech so it will simply see a box, rather than chocolate chip cookies.
I think lidar is an odd one, that's all. Phone cameras are significantly worse for privacy.
Facebook is a cesspit of delusion and the "metaverse" initiative they took takes us to a point of no return for all their apps. Tiktok I would say is even worse given how we basically have millions of young teens oscillating on the borderline of being "famous" and sexualizing themselves. Stay away from such social media platforms or those that offer completely "free" products and you are good.