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

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

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You can look at the code to see what it's actually doing.

People rarely look at the code even when its open source

> People rarely look at the code even when its open source

So? The point is people can if they want too. Even if only w small portion do, it's better than having closed sources code.

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

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There is no good corporate behavior >Who here is defending "corporations" dylan604 try to change focus of attention. This is type of manipulation. And in this context, this is defence >Do you think Facebook and their ilk are the only actors who might want to hijack the cameras on your devices? Nope. But for some reason fb can't do QA. At all And this do most of the work for other "actors" Why this happens?

wait, what? i am not defending evil corp at all. IMO, my comment about covering the camera on your device is purely self-defense because evil corp can't be trusted. how you can twist my self-defense suggestion as defending evil corp's decision to nefariously use the webcam is some serious bending of logic

> dylan604 try to change focus of attention.

> This is type of manipulation. And in this context, this is defence

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

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No idea mate but what I've noticed is that when I had the facebook app installed it used to completely trash my battery on every android device I tried it on while running in the background. Imo there must be some kind of processing that they are doing locally.

Would energizing the camera chip the entire time you are using FB apps not explain the battery drain by itself?

As far as the older androids I'm talking about I'm pretty sure that they didn't have the camera open 24/7 because the battery drain would have been even higher( based on my perception when taking a lot of photos), plus the camera used to overheat so I would have noticed. What I'm saying is that they are probably datamining and processing something. Not sure what that would be, but android at least is pretty pervasive with it's app permissions and used to be even more so so it could be anything on the phone really.
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