2023-06-13 22:31:09
At this time there is not a single application that during its installation process does not request access to a certain part of the system of a device, especially Android, so at such moments the opportunity may arise for us to end up granting access without the greatest objection to some other functions, such as our camera or microphone.
Although these are usually only activated when you enter the application, and the system for security, asks us if we want to access these services or not, and in the case of WhatsApp and Facebook they abide by the permissions.
However, the Xataya portal, a specialist in digital issues, picked up, there are ways to establish if these two applications, or any other, get access to the camera or microphone without accessing them, or that they have given us notice that at some point these were activated.
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But how to remove the permissions?
The first thing the user must do is access the “Settings” section of the mobile device, and then search and click on the “Security and privacy” section. Then, this must enter the “Privacy Panel” option, where there will be a display of applications and thus the permissions that until now could have been granted without knowing it, when the application was installed. In addition to being able to identify which ones used it recently.
After the user was able to establish which applications have been using their camera and microphone, they must enter the “Settings”, select the “Applications” tab. This will give us the list of those that we have installed, and we can one by one give it the option to deactivate or remove the permission.
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