applications for iPhone can take pictures and videos of you and everything that happens around you without you knowing, according to a company engineer Google. Below you have a video clip that presents the whole problem, the engineer from Google showing how pictures can be taken by an application without us knowing, she showing a feed with images while in the background it records pictures and can even make videos video.
The problem lies in the way the Apple company allows applications to request permissions for the iPhone or iPad camera, giving them full access. When we give these applications access to the camera, they can do anything in the background without notifying us, and the developers can even monitor our face in real time, or what is around us, facial recognition being also possible .
Unlike GPS, which has an icon displayed in the status bar when the location is accessed, in the case of the camera there is no information that tells us this when someone takes pictures or videos. Even when we stream online in an application, no alert message is displayed, as the Apple company does not have any security measures implemented by users, separate from the one for access to the camera.
Applications for iPhone and iPad constantly ask for permissions for many things, from the microphone to the GPS, or even the camera, but the access received is total, and often without alerts. There are many applications from unknown developers that ask for access to the camera, and they can take pictures of our girls, or even video clips and send them to their own servers without us knowing, the Apple company has to solve this problem.
