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So Apparently Our Phones Are Taking Pics of us and distributing them without permission!

Where's the news articles about the Vivo Nex camera apparently popping up unexpectedly? Bare in mind this phone has only just been released in China, and isn't officially available anywhere else yet AFAIK.
 
Hi,

So I came across an article from the verge confirming my fears! WTF.

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Article- https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17531698/conspiracy-theory-facebook-android-phone-listening


I have no words!
If you'd like the actual data, rather than The Verge's paraphrase of a Gizmodo article, then you can find it here: https://recon.meddle.mobi/panoptispy/.

(Be warned, it's a large dataset).

Don't allow camera access to anything that you don't intend to use to take pictures.
 
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