Facebook is being accused of accessing peoples’ cameras through Instagram, thanks to a iOS 14 feature that tells you when your camera is active.
Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was accessing iPhone cameras.
In the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, New Jersey Instagram user Brittany Conditi contends the app’s use of the camera is intentional and done for the purpose of collecting “lucrative and valuable data on its users that it would not otherwise have access to.”
Facebook: “It’s a bug because you weren’t supposed to know we were doing this.”
Check It Out: iOS 14 Reveals Facebook Spying on Your Camera Through Instagram
Andrew:
FB is like the pickpocket who keeps getting caught and swears it’s not his fault; he’s not picking people’s pockets, their pockets are simply hand magnets.
Let me show you my shocked face ?