WhatsApp denies quietly accessing user microphones
A bug in either Android or WhatsApp has caused an uproar online as the popular chat app appeared to be accessing smartphone microphones while not in use.from Twitter engineer Foad Dabiri with the caption “WhatsApp cannot be trusted”.
“WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6:00 AM What’s going on?” Dabiri said.saying the app was not actually accessing users’ microphones. One of the biggest incidents was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where a British consulting firm had been able to collect personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users without their consent.
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