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Bug Blamed for Instagram Unexpectedly Accessing Camera in iOS 14
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A lot of people would have serious withdrawal. They like their tainted candy.
The bug is that the green "camera on" indicator is displayed, not that the camera is on. The bug fix will turn off the camera indicator, but the camera will continue to be on. haha
Why does anyone care if the camera is on? I am not saying I would want or allow it if given a choice but what on earth is revealed by a camera... the color of my underwear? I use Netgear software and every time I launch "genie" it asks to access my photos... I say no every time, I wish it would learn my answer.
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The comments about nerds should know better than to use Facebook has me confused. Surely no one has ever accepted an invite, clicked on an ad, clicked on a link in a message, installed messenger on anything etc. I have felt Facebook was a mine field that could be crossed with a modicum of paranoia.
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The comments about nerds should know better than to use Facebook has me confused. Surely no one has ever accepted an invite, clicked on an ad, clicked on a link in a message, installed messenger on anything etc. I have felt Facebook was a mine field that could be crossed with a modicum of paranoia.
You can't be serious!?
How would you not care if an app accesses your photos/camera/microphone without asking for permission, especially if you don't expect it?
Until there is real public outrage and action this will continue to happen. They have no reason as yet to stop.
So weird how bugs always seem to invade our privacy. So weird.
There is a legitimate reason to always be accessing the camera: when you swipe over from your feed into the camera, Instagram wants the camera to be instantly ready to take a photo, which means initializing the camera before the user even enters the camera. (Otherwise there would be a few second delay. Try force quitting your Camera app and then re-opening it. It takes a second or two for the camera to initialize.)
I'm not trying to defend Instagram/Facebook, because they absolutely have some real ****** privacy-invading development tactics—but I'm not interested in vilifying them over this specific case without the full information like everyone else is.
ya’ll disagreeing and can’t come up with some to say huh? Typical of this ****ing site.
I'm not trying to defend Instagram/Facebook, because they absolutely have some real ****** privacy-invading development tactics—but I'm not interested in vilifying them over this specific case without the full information like everyone else is.
ya’ll disagreeing and can’t come up with some to say huh? Typical of this ****ing site.
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Ya. Aggressive better suited for FB.
The problem is things like this are flushed out in beta versions of iOS and caught by geeks (no insult intended) and the "bugs" are fixed before full release. I'm sure many of the clipboard offenders have already removed that "functionality" so when iOS 14 is released the masses will not know.
The sheep don't know or care.
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Bug Blamed for Instagram Unexpectedly *Being Caught* Accessing Camera in iOS 14 — they were hoping no one would notice.
/me has a new masterplan
- Legally change name to Joe Bug
- Work as developer for >20 sketchy IT companies one 1 week a pop
- Charge an insane hourly rate
- -> they are in the clean
- Legally change name to Joe Bug
- Work as developer for >20 sketchy IT companies one 1 week a pop
- Charge an insane hourly rate
- -> they are in the clean
Men In Black should check Facebook HQ. The number of bugs is suspicious.
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If it wasn’t a bug would they have admitted it wasn’t? No. It’s a “bug” regardless of it was intentional or not. PR would have ever let them say otherwise, especially when there is plausible deniability
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the word “aggressive” here. It’s not a negative word. For example, you can aggressively defend yourself, aggressively fight covid-19, etc.
I’m glad Apple aggressively defends my privacy, and I hope that word accurately describes how they do it, because that’s what I want.
If it's a western app, it's a bug. If the app is made in Russia or China, it is spyware.
Yeah, course it was a bug. They only meant to access the microphone.
Their statement is full of lies and intentionally misleading.
Truth Translator v1.1: The "bug" was not in iOS 14 Beta and we did not touch anything in iOS as the statement makes it sound like. The "bug" was in the Instagram application. iOS 14 Beta correctly indicated that our application was accessing your camera.
Truth Translator v1.1: correctly indicates that our application was accessing the camera.
Truth Translator v1.1: We did access your camera, however, we did not record any of the content.
Truth Translator v1.1: The "bug" was not in iOS 14 Beta and we did not touch anything in iOS as the statement makes it sound like. The "bug" was in the Instagram application. iOS 14 Beta correctly indicated that our application was accessing your camera.
Truth Translator v1.1: correctly indicates that our application was accessing the camera.
Truth Translator v1.1: We did access your camera, however, we did not record any of the content.
Truth Translator 1.2: We did access your camera and recorded you, but we won't admit it.
I'm sort of amazed at all of the comments in this thread. It's like not a single person in this thread has written software before -- let alone deal with iOS Obj-C or Swift. It's incredibly easy to not deregister connection to various APIs which is exactly what a system level indicator would expose via the camera API. I'm not saying FB/Instagram is in the right here, but damn. This stuff can legitimately happen.
If it wasn't for certain groups that I'm a part of that use FB as their main forum for communication and sharing, I would have deleted my account long ago.
I'd be surprised if the microphone isn't also compromised. I can recall a few ads popping up just from having a conversation with no search made, but then that could have been Google too.
I'd be surprised if the microphone isn't also compromised. I can recall a few ads popping up just from having a conversation with no search made, but then that could have been Google too.