Do you know how to check the apps on your smartphone and their access to the microphone?
Do you know how to check the apps on your smartphone and their access to the microphone?
Twitter developer Foad Dabiri shared a screenshot from your Android smartphone. It documents how the WhatsApp application accessed the microphone of his smartphone while he was sleeping and thus without the activity of the user himself.
Many other users of the application had the same observation.
Musk also joined
Technology visionary and Dabiri boss Elon Musk also shared the post saying that WhatsApp cannot be trusted.
However, for the sake of completeness, it should be said that Twitter, which is owned by Musk, is a direct competitor of WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, as well as Facebook and Instagram.
You can also check how the installed applications on your Android phone use the microphone through the Privacy Panel in the settings.
What about WhatsApp? The article continues on the second page.
WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on? pic.twitter.com/pNIfe4VlHV
– Foad Dabiri (@foaddabiri) May 6, 2023
Over the last 24 hours we’ve been in touch with a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp.
We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate. https://t.co/MnBi3qE6Gp
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 9, 2023
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