After hearing about Cox Media Group, I am wondering why someone can’t simply look at the lines of code of an app or OS and see whether or not a connected device is spying on the user to sell them ads.
Like extract the .ipa Instagram app from an iphone and look at its code with xcode, search for audio recording features that could be running at times the iser isn’t running the app.
The multiple theories around this hypothesis always have something mystical about it as if coding wasn’t science.
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I’ve always found it funny that people are so paranoid over their cell phones “listening” or “spying” on them when in reality they’ve literally unknowingly given permission to applications to share data and analytics with third parties in an effort to make the user experience better.
It’s all written in the terms and conditions of everything they use, but nobody ever reads them.
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