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>Camera and microphone on the mobile phone activate when I press the button to activate them. Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for just a moment and remind yo
by thesuitonym 9y ago
>Camera and microphone on the mobile phone activate when I press the button to activate them.
Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for just a moment and remind you that, should Google want to, they could just turn on your microphone and camera without letting you know. Would they? Probably not, but they certainly could, and unless you're in the habit of regularly checking your network traffic, you wouldn't know.
- maccard 9y agoNot if you don't use Android.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYes if you use Android, and in particular yes if you've given an app camera access. Proof: my phone (unrooted, OEM Android) can shoot photos whenever I want it to, even if it stays locked, without anyone noticing. It's a trivial Tasker job I set up myself (think e.g. shooting rear-camera selfies using your smartwatch), but it nicely demonstrates that any app with camera privileges could do that too.
- traviscj 9y agoAlso, if VW can figure out when their cars are out for test, I can't convince myself that google couldn't do a damn good job of hiding the network traffic, if they wanted to. Like most in this thread, I am not _actively_ paranoid about this, but a constant low-grade paranoid.