Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

Such bullshit.

They definitely initialize the camera in the background. That is how you are able to simply swipe to your camera view and it is immediately active. Otherwise you would get a slight delay while the camera is initialised.

What they are calling a bug is that the user actually saw it it rendered to a view...

Have no doubt - this happens on ALL apps that dont have an apparent delay on switching to a camera view. That facebook are saying this is a bug that they have "fixed", rather than admitting that they intentionally initialize the camera in the background makes me concerned as to why they would want to hide that fact...

WTF does a VP of integrity do? Have lunches with the VP of honesty?

This may be true...

Previous versions used to take an age to load up the camera screen/swipe action was blocked (assuming the initialising process). So looks like this may of been their attempt of fixing the UX

I’ve long suspected this as the Facebook app in particular causes the phone to get hot around where the main camera module ic is located. It is also a battery drain. They appear to be doing this in collaboration with Apple as the battery usage for the camera does not increase despite the camera constantly being initiated while using the Facebook app.

I’ve also noticed that when certain ad platforms inject their code into Safari taboola/outbrain the same heating occurs. This would make sense as taboola and outbrain appear to be linked to Israeli intelligence.

I guess they not only don’t care about our privacy they also don’t care about our battery life / health of our devices either.

It sort of reminds me of how windows would spin up your HDD In the middle of the night and scan through your entire hard drive causing it to prematurely fail. All under the guise of windows update or whatever the cover was for what I consider criminal damage.

Color me unsurprised.