The Facebook app is secretly accessing people's camera as they read the news feed

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RaymondArroyo Replying to and RaymondArroyo. I believe it.

Boooooooooooooo

Intercept Technologies managed to reproduce this security flaw also

Facebook needs to die in a fire

How was this a secret? Y'all know those emoji responses to posts are actually a tracking algorithm, right?

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Time to put a tape on cameras and mic on phone like this guy..

That's why we have pieces of paper taped across the cameras on a lot of our Internet equipment. One piece of paper is from a Chinese fortune cookie that has the fortune 'Don't panic'. It fits, b/c I tend to panic when the computer stops responding.

2 minutes silence for those who really believe it's an unintentional bug..

And zuckersnake is pushing the smart-camera Portal for video calling. There’s no low that him & his surveillance/data gathering company, won’t sink to.

This is good news. If I know when I’m being watched it makes it easier for me to cum.

really who cares

The facebook has seen alot of peoples cum faces

Are you sitting with lie mps sat silent under oath guilty mass genocide with councils as companies Ok congress read bible book revelations Jesus very clear his judgements

What do you expect from a CEO that calls his users 'dumb Fuks'? He has no respect for user privacy.

We not accepting it through phones computers markzuckerberg worship Satan. Or he not lie as ceo. Last yrs but hacking nhs not wise choice on public news

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