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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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ok thanks, but where's the list of these apps?
These type of articles never list the apps they're discussing.
iOS and Android. If you have one of those people are listening.
Comments like this try to make you give up on privacy by making it look like all is lost from the get to.
They are lying, don't believe them, there is a lot you can do to protect your privacy.
Both of these apps have device-level notifications to let you know when an app is listening. I promise they're not. There was a service a while back that was claiming this in their advertising and it went public and their partners all scattered like flies. No one wants to be associated with that sort of thing. It's unnecessary anyway.
Eh, you can be reasonably sure that GrapheneOS or other Android ROMs without any Google Play apps is private.
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