iPhone apps with camera permission: How Apple could better protect our privacyGranting camera access could let a malicious app take photos and videos of you without your knowledge. Here's what you need to know!
This is one of those things where there's no new information and nothing has changed in terms of what apps can and can't do on iPhone and iPad, but it's an excellent reminder and important opportunity to advocate for improvement:
The Next Web:
This is pretty disturbing. Google engineer Felix Krause has detailed an alarming privacy setting in Apple's iOS that enables iPhone apps with camera permission to surreptitiously take photos and videos of you – without your knowledge.
Clarification: Krause has since contacted TNW to clarify that he conducts his security research work during off-hours and independently of Google.
The researcher notes that granting camera permission will enable apps to access both the front and the back camera of your device, photograph and record you at any time the app is in the foreground, upload this conten...
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iPhone apps with camera permission: How Apple could better protect our privacy
