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Instagram also secretly accessed your camera, until exposed by iOS 14: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-...


And lets not forget that Facebook used your 2FA mobile phone number as a piece of information used to target you with ads:

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...


Yikes! Edit: IG's claim was that the indicator light was a bug (erroneously indicating that the camera was in use), but the app wasn't actually accessing the camera.


Does anyone believe Facebook when they say this is just a bug and no data was harvested?


Frankly, given their track record and incentives, no one should ever believe that.




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