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With Camera Permission, iPhone Apps Can Surreptitiously Take Pictures and Videos (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Whenever you give iPhone apps permission to access your camera, the app can surreptitiously take pictures and videos of you as long as the app is in the foreground, a security researcher warned on Wednesday. This is not a bug, but keep it in mind when a random app asks you for permission to access your camera. What this means is that even if you don't see the camera "open" in the form of an on-screen viewfinder, an app can still take photos and videos. It is unknown how many apps currently do this, but Krause created a test app as a proof-of-concept. This behavior is what enables certain "spy" apps like Stealth Cam and Easy Calc - Camera Eye to exist. But even if this behavior is well-known among iOS developers and hardcore users, it's worth remembering that all apps that have camera permission can technically take photos in this way. "It's something most people have no idea about, as they think the camera is only being used if they see the camera content or a LED is blinking," Krause told Motherboard in a chat over Twitter direct message. Krause currently works at Google, but performed and published this research independently of his work there.
But the new iPhone is going to be released soon, and Google doesn't want it to take the Pixel 2 thunder.
While in actuality. If you are an Android User you will get an Android Phone, if you are an iPhone user you will get an iPhone. But articles like this help justify your belief that your purchase was somehow superior and you are the smarter consumer because of it.
Because in order to get people to switch to the other, you really need some major new feature that the other will not have shortly... Or the Other finds a way to really screw it up their next generation product, or fails to keep the product up to date over a long period of time.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
But we need a reason to hate Apple Products. Otherwise our decision to pick Android Products will seem less important. And buying something that isn't the best deal, is the most mortal sin that an internet user can do today.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
"Whenever you give iPhone apps permission to access your camera, the app can surreptitiously take pictures and videos "
I'm flabbergasted, next you'll tell us if I give them permission to use the microphone, they can listen to us.