{"id":394544,"date":"2019-01-29T18:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-first-warned-about-tech-spying-over-a-decade-ago\/"},"modified":"2019-01-29T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:29:58","slug":"we-first-warned-about-tech-spying-over-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-first-warned-about-tech-spying-over-a-decade-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"We First Warned About Tech Spying Over a Decade Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>FaceTime calls access microphone and camera even when user doesn\u2019t answer <\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>January 29, 2019 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/290119facetime1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Over a decade since Infowars first warned that corporations were spying on users without their knowledge or consent via microphones and cameras embedded in devices, it has now emerged that Apple\u2019s Facetime feature is doing precisely that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is being described as a \u201cbug\u201d was uncovered yesterday after it was revealed that a caller can get access to a recipient\u2019s microphone and camera in real time if the recipient presses the power button on an iPhone while receiving the call. This is typically done to silence or ignore an incoming call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple\u2019s glitch appeared to be quite disturbing as many people on social media put the tech colossus to shame for failing to prevent such a glaring security flaw,\u201d reports RT. \u201cSeveral posts suggested blocking the app over fears of spying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple responded to the controversy by disabling Group FaceTime calls and promising to offer a software update to fix the bug later this week.<\/p>\n<p>In an article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120114080529\/http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/articles\/september2006\/060906spyon.htm\">first published<\/a> over 12 years ago, we warned that \u201cPrivate industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ssshot.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, we also reported on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/samsung-smart-tv-records-personal-conversations-sends-them-to-third-parties\/\">Samsung\u2019s own privacy policy stated<\/a> that a user\u2019s personal conversations will be recorded by the device\u2019s microphone and transmitted to third parties.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 it also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/google-secretly-spying-on-computer-users-via-microphones\/\">emerged<\/a> that Google\u2019s Chrome browser had begun remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to emphasize that whereas now people have become accustomed to the notion of being spied on by their own&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/apple-facetime-controversy-we-first-warned-about-tech-spying-over-a-decade-ago.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FaceTime calls access microphone and camera even when user doesn\u2019t answer Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJanuary 29, 2019 Over a decade since Infowars first warned that corporations were spying on users without their knowledge or consent via microphones and cameras embedded in devices, it has now emerged that Apple\u2019s Facetime feature is doing precisely that. 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