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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Problem is that lots of kids have smartphones and dont understand what they are allowing by enabling those permissions.
All recent OSes even visually make it obvious that the microphone is used, after asking the user if they should allow it at all. I don’t think they can actually to more far than this. Maybe regularly ask the user if they really want the microphone to be used all the time.