Facebook’s iOS app may open your camera without your knowledge

Michael November 12, 2019

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UPDATE: Fb have acknowledged this problem and have stated it is a bug. They’ve submitted a repair to Google. Do you imagine them?

Fb’s iOS app is perhaps opening your digicam app with out you realizing.

Two situations the place this was confirmed you may see beneath through twitter

https://twitter.com/neo_qa/standing/1190639141979140097?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfwpercent7Ctwcamppercent5Etweetembedpercent7Ctwtermpercent5E1190639141979140097&ref_url=httpspercent3Apercent2Fpercent2Fwww.theverge.compercent2F2019%2F11%2F12%2F20961332%2Ffacebooks-ios-app-reportedly-camera-background-security

and right here through Joshua Maddux a designers identical problem:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaMaddux/standing/1193434937824702464?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfwpercent7Ctwcamppercent5Etweetembedpercent7Ctwtermpercent5E1193434937824702464&ref_url=httpspercent3Apercent2Fpercent2Fwww.theverge.compercent2F2019%2F11%2F12%2F20961332%2Ffacebooks-ios-app-reportedly-camera-background-security

It is an unnerving prospect that they’re persistently spying on you.