Someone is watching you
Mac Life|January 2018

Apps can film and take pictures of you — thanks to iOS camera permissions

Rob Mead-GReen
Someone is watching you

GOOGLE ENGINEER FELIX  Krause has detailed a vulnerability in iOS that means any app with permission to use the camera on your iPhone or iPad can secretly film you or take pictures of you — whether you are aware of it or not.

The problem stems from the fact that once you give an app permission to access your camera, it can do so at any time provided that it’s in the foreground… and Krause has created a demo social networking app called watch.user, which does exactly that, to show how the potential exploit works.

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