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  • Could graphene os possibly expose apps like tik tok or Facebook ?

I haven't tested this yet but we all know that apps such as Facebook , Snapchat , and tik tok spy on normal os users daily even if those users disable the camera and mic access to these apps .

Let's say that I'm running graphene os and have tik tok installed. I completely disabled microphone and camera access and put my phone down to charge, watch a movie , jerk off whatever . If tik tok tried to secretly run the mic or camera in the background without my knowledge would graphene os alert me by popping up a notification for me to enable mic or camera access or is that not a possibility?

If it is a possibility wouldn't that validate that these apps are secretly trying to spy on us ? You would think on a normal phone such as iPhone or stock android it would pop up a notifcation to enable microphone/camera if this was the case but then again I guess it would defeat the purpose of secretly trying to spy on the user wouldn't it ?

What are yalls thoughts on this ?

    android 12 and above shows green camera/mic dot when any app uses the camera/mic

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    If the app doesn't run, it cannot spy on you.

    Settings-System-Developer options-Running processes

    If you don't see it there, it doesn't see you either. Hope it helps.

    I wouldn't mind a better alert than just a pop-up.
    I want it to vibrate when an app's request is blocked. Very helpful when I try to use the keyboard speech to text, and start talking without looking.

    Sudographos An app can't "spy" on you using a permission you don't explicitly grant it.

    For permissions like Microphone and Camera, you can even grant them that permission "only this time", meaning that each time you launch the app, they have to ask you and get your permission to access them.

    There is also a camera/microphone indicator when they're being used. There's also a global camera and microphone quick tile since Android 12 that disables them OS-wide.

      3 months later

      Sudographos

      I haven't tested this yet but we all know that apps such as Facebook , Snapchat , and tik tok spy on normal os users daily even if those users disable the camera and mic access to these apps .

      What do you mean by this? If you disable camera and microphone access for an app, it cannot "spy" on you using the camera or the microphone. It also won't try to turn on the microphone because the system communicates to the app that the user has not granted that permission.

        6 days later

        Locking this thread as it is being hijacked by spambots based on keywords to promote malicious links (keywords here being "tik tok" and "Facebook", presumably).