Smartphone Apps Now Use Microphone to Record Your Conversations

Smartphone Apps Now Use Microphone to Record Your Conversations

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 15, 2012



Did you know that many of the apps you download to your
smartphone now use your microphone to listen to you and your camera to
take pictures of you without your confirmation?

New terms of agreement contracts now being attached to
app downloads require users to accept that their cellphones become
literal monitoring devices that record conversations and surreptitiously
take pictures without the user ever giving permission.

It’s been common knowledge for years that app companies
and service providers use GPS technology to pinpoint the location of
smartphone users.

However, after purchasing a new Samsung Galaxy Note II
and proceeding to download a couple of Android apps, one a social
networking app and the other a simple calendar, I was shocked to
discover that users are mandated to relinquish every aspect of privacy
imaginable in order to download the app.

As you can see from the image above, app companies now demand the right to;

- “Record Audio” – “Allows the app to record audio with
the microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any
time without your confirmation.”

- “Take pictures and videos” – “Allows the app to take
pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to
use the camera at any time without your confirmation.”

App companies are also requiring you to allow them to
approximate your location, send SMS messages from your phone that cost
you money, read your contacts, read your phone status and identity, get
“full network access” to your communications (in other words listen to
your phone calls), modify or delete the contents of your USB storage,
and disable your screen lock (the 4 digit code that password-protects
your phone).

Since the vast majority of people simply consent to
terms of agreement without bothering to read them, this means that
potentially millions of smartphone users all over the world have given
app companies and by extension service providers permission to record
their conversations and take pictures of their private life.

This has been allowed to pass virtually unnoticed with barely any press attention or privacy debate whatsoever.

Since smartphones are dependent on apps, users are being
given the option to either not use them and render their expensive
device largely redundant, or submit to have their private conversations
and personal life catalogued as if they were trapped inside The Truman Show.





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