I've always been rather annoyed at how easy it is to sneak in videos and recordings on Android. Even wrote a proof of concept on how to secretly record people a

I've always been rather annoyed at how easy it is to sneak in videos and recordings on Android. Even wrote a proof of concept on how to secretly record people and submit the data as plaintext: https://github.com/smuzani/soundrecorder https://github.com/smuzani/soundrecorder It was very plausible in the past, but Android and iOS have regularly been ramping up privacy. The latest for Android seems to be that only one app can run a camera at any one time, and a green icon appears at the top of the screen when camera/mic permissions are active. People always seem to think I'm paranoid about this, but I've been asked by so many potential clients to actually code this in their "free" apps. As for Meta, there are a lot of things that make me highly suspicious. While we have screenshots of FB and WhatsApp being dodgy (e.g. camera running below the UI, some experiments on linking WhatsApp to FB ads), there's never been any damning proof. So it's best to assume incompetence and not malice.