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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Recent versions of Android make it much more difficult for a background app to access the microphone. There will be a notification if any background app is using the mic or camera.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, the green dot top right

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now if there was only an easy way to get to the offending app to identify it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pull open quick settings and tap the dot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really? Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For Samsung at least, tapping the dot will tell you what's accessing what. I can't confirm if it works on other flavors of Android unfortunately.

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