Facebook bug shows camera activated in background during app use
When you're scrolling through Facebook's app, the social network could be watching you back, concerned users have found.
Multiple people have found and reported that their iPhone cameras were turned on in the background while they were looking at their feed.
Users noted that their cameras were activated behind Facebook's app as they were watching videos or looking at photos on the social network.
Facebook didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but Guy Rosen, its vice president of integrity, tweeted Tuesday that this seems like a bug and the company's looking into the matter.
Daryl Lasafin, the creative director of marketing agency Dame Digital in the Philippines, said he dismissed the issue when he first noticed it on Sunday morning, thinking it was a minor glitch.
Then, as he continued using Facebook's app throughout the day, he couldn't help but keep noticing his camera activated in the background.
Facebook's track record with privacy doesn't help the massive social network's image, though it does doesn't seem to have hurt its growth in users or revenue.
Facebook's reputation on privacy is so worrying that many people still believe the social network is secretly recording people through their microphones.
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