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Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

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369 points zeech | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.374s | source
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diggernet ◴[26 Apr 25 02:05 UTC] No.43800281[source]▶
> "Apps were automatically taking screenshots of themselves and sending them to third parties. In one case, the app took video of the screen activity and sent that information to a third party.”

> Out of over 17,000 Android apps examined, more than 9,000 had potential permissions to take screenshots. And a number of apps were found to actively be doing so, taking screenshots and sending them to third-party sources.

Which permission is that, and how do you detect which apps are doing that and stop them?

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1. ch4s3 ◴[26 Apr 25 02:55 UTC] No.43800497[source]▶
When it's a developer tool we call it RUM or real user monitoring. It's super useful for solving bugs, but obviously the potential for abuse or user hostile activity is super high.