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If you're using a mobile OS that you suspect has APIs that can allow this at all, you shouldn't be using that OS. The iPhone has an indicator at the top of the
by hbn 2y ago
If you're using a mobile OS that you suspect has APIs that can allow this at all, you shouldn't be using that OS.
The iPhone has an indicator at the top of the screen that's present during and for several seconds after when any app is using your camera or microphone. Even for built-in system apps like the native camera.
I'd like to think Apple's financial motivation for user trust outweighs whatever money they could be getting by offering backdoors for LinkedIn of all things. Not to mention the lawsuits they could be facing for letting an app listen to users unbeknownst to them for a bit of Microsoft kickback. This is after introducing a user privacy measure that basically undermined the entirety of Facebook's monetization strategy (site that was majority of internet traffic) and forced them to do a major pivot a few years ago.
- danaris 2y agoThe iPhone also requires all apps that want to use the microphone to gain your permission, at least the first time. So if you never gave LinkedIn permission to use your microphone (or did once, but then went into Settings and revoked it), unless they have found a way to backdoor iOS's permissions structure, the LinkedIn app is absolutely, 100%, not listening to you on your iPhone.
- inetknght 2y agoMaybe that's how it is today, but is that how it was 10 years ago?
- electroly 2y agoThe permission for microphone usage? Yes. The microphone permission was added in iOS 7 in 2013. On Google you can find timestamped references (on Stack Overflow, etc.) to the microphone permission that are more than 10 years old.