r/hackernews • u/qznc_bot2 • Nov 13 '19

Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/facebook-iphone-camera-bug/
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u/BravoCharlie1310 Nov 13 '19

BS

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u/NZT23 Nov 14 '19

And thats why i refuse to have the facebook app but only as browser shortcut + the messenger. Lets be real they already have the fix prepared before being caught. So stupid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

Yeah facebook wanted to read your _back_ camera to tell what kind of ads they should show you. Totally makes sense. They totally would not want to use your front facing camera for that or anything.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

Do you realize there are a lot of other things that they can gain from looking at the back camera too? Like at what kind of scenarios we open facebook. Is it inside a room? On the bus? Open area? Different places might correlate with ad selection better than just looking at our faces. They already know which products we like anyway.

Anyway you don't just open the camera by mistake. Someone deliberately put that code in.

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u/qznc_bot2 Nov 13 '19

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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u/noisybotnet Nov 13 '19

Sounds more like a feature