The Facebook app could be secretly using your iPhone camera behind your back

Facebook is hardy a name that synonymous with privacy, and a newly discovered issue with the iOS version of the Facebook app does nothing to improve the situation. Web designer Joshua Maddux was alarmed to find that the app was secretly using the camera on his iPhone as he scrolled through his Facebook feed. The problem has been confirmed by others, but it appears to only affects certain iPhones and certain versions of iOS. See also: Facebook Pay launches in the US, with payment options in Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Apple refreshes its privacy portal and seeks to differentiate… [Continue Reading]