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November 12, 2019 06:27 pm

Facebooks iOS app might be opening the camera in the background without your knowledge




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Facebook might have another security problem on its hands, as some people have reported on Twitter that Facebook’s iOS app appears to be activating the camera in the background of the app without their knowledge. Facebook says it’s looking into what’s happening.


There are a couple ways that this has been found to happen. One person found that the camera UI for Facebook Stories briefly appeared behind a video when they flipped their phone from portrait to landscape. Then, when they flipped it back, the app opened directly to the Stories camera. You can see it in action here (via CNET):






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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12/20961332/facebooks-ios-app-reportedly-camera-background-security

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