I tried installing the Facebook app on an Android phone now, and it says: -------- Record audio: Allows application to access the audio record path.
Take pictures: Allows application to take pictures with the camera. This allows the application at any time to collect images the camera is seeing. --------- I think how this works is that you can record stuff from within the facebook app, but then you will notice that the camera light is on, of course. It's odd that it apparently also has access to the camera when another app is using the camera. But this is probably a design decision at the Android level. In the developer documentation for Android app developers https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html it say that 'For recording audio with video capture, your application must request the audio capture permission.' That same page however also advises to use other existing apps for recording, unless you want to add some special functionality to the recording UI. Anyway, looking at the full list of permissions, I think it's fair to say that the Facebook Android app requires very broad permissions. This is not a point about the website, but let's add it to the review anyway (we should then do this for more services which people will probably end up using from a smartphone app instead of desktop-only), I propose bad, 30 for this point. On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 3:41:07 PM UTC+2, Hugo Roy wrote: > > Worth investigating.... > > > -------- Message d'origine -------- > De : Smarthart <[email protected]> > Envoyé: Tue Jun 25 15:19:24 UTC+02:00 2013 > À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Objet : Facebook new app update let them record sound & video from your > phone, at any time, without your consent > > > I am not sure if this is alarmist or not. But, I am definitely deleting > the facebook app. > > We definitely need ' 'Disconnect Me' How do we withdraw consent? > > > > - Mark > > > http://crisisboom.com/2013/01/19/facebook-new-app-update-let-them-record-sound-video-from-your-phone-at-any-time-without-your-consent/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "open notice" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opennotice/5B83F9C3-F806-483E-BD36-C444AE2A670F%40gmail.com. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > Hugo Roy > > sent from my mobile, with free software: www.freeyourandroid.org. please > excuse my brevity. > > Tel. +336 08 741 341 > -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
