18-09-2020 22:24 via ocregister.com

Facebook accused of watching Instagram users through phone cameras

By Robert Burnson | Bloomberg
Facebook is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.
The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used.
Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was ac
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