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It's simply impossible for FB to record audio. When I worked in the OEM industry, there were rigorous standards and compliances that had to be met to ship our
by foobaw 9y ago
It's simply impossible for FB to record audio.
When I worked in the OEM industry, there were rigorous standards and compliances that had to be met to ship our phones. If an app was invoking audio recording without the proper permissions, this would be a huge red flag. Google would never approve the phone to be shipped as it would be breaking their CDD.
Also, if audio data was being transmitted using some obscure APN that does not use mobile data or Wi-Fi, OEMs could still easily detect these from the modem side, no matter how encrypted the data is. After all, the app is still JUST an app, in the system folder with all the other apps like Candy Crush. Unless this specific audio recording feature was built into the Android framework, I will say it is 100% impossible.
Note: this is just for Android. I have no idea how iOS works.
- mkonecny 9y ago> It's simply impossible for FB to record audio. You should check your sources again - that statement is false.... You only have to look at the release notes from the dev preview on Android P today to see that was possible for any background app to access the camera and microphone at any time: https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#all-apps https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#... > Android P strengthens privacy by limiting the ability of background apps to access user input and sensor data. If your app is running in the background on a device running Android P, the system applies the following restrictions to your app: Your app cannot access the microphone or camera.
- foobaw 9y agoIt says that apps in the "background" cannot access user input and sensor data. This means that even if the app gains permission in the foreground, it won't have access when the app is running in the background. Note that this use case was extremely rare anyway, but I know Google did this simply to ease people's minds (I know several people on the Android framework team).
- mkonecny 9y agoOoops, I misread your message. You are stating they can't access your microphone without the permission - I'm not refuting that
- harryVic 9y agoYou have to give permission if you want to share pictures, videos, etc. You can't then control when the app decides to use the mic privilege.