Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

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Very dystopian. Related, this is from last year

Still somewhat related, theres also many apps that uses sdk that turned phones into botnet Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog

I can’t read source code but i still prioritised foss apps over closed source one. Glad that I’m somewhat very picky on what to install.

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Very old news.

But yeah problem is that so many people are trained to just consent anything an app asks for.

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