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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)
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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup, the green dot top right

[–] db2@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now if there was only an easy way to get to the offending app to identify it

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pull open quick settings and tap the dot.

[–] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? Thank you!

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Samsung at least, tapping the dot will tell you what's accessing what. I can't confirm if it works on other flavors of Android unfortunately.