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 mean I have made several apps for iOS and there is no way to record audio without the user giving my app permission. Also no way to use the microphone without turning on the little indicator light.
All the stuff you see if maybe possibly when the camera is turned on for whatever purpose you are using it for. But never randomly without your permission.
The whole logistics of uploading audio recorded without knowledge and processing that data with no guarantee there was anything useful said would be pointless,
Literally it’s just cookies tracking your data and the people around you to know what’s going on in your life.
Literally the apps have access to my wifi network and my wife’s wifi network and knows we live together so when something affects her or she googles something I might be interested in that thing too, it goes way more in depth than that.
Google shadow profiles and look into it further, apps are not using your mic / camera on iOS without you knowing
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