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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing (newatlas.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Checkout exodus privacy in case you didn't already know about it in order to check if any app you have has permissions to take screenshots or anything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know where in Exodus you can see if an app takes screenshots? Looking through the permissions of two of the most invasive apps I could think of off the top of my head (Facebook, Google, Temu, Instagram, some popular mobile games) I couldn't find any permissions specifically related to screenshot. If most apps tested are taking screenshots, I would have thought it would be easy to see :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I guess if it doesn't say they have permission to take screenshots then they don't and won't take screenshots. Or maybe exodus is wrong (i kinda doubt that) but I'm not knowledgeable to make any proper decision.

At any rate I would recommend not having any of those apps on your phone particularly facebook or temu. but if you still need to use them just use the website since that has much less permissions for your device and definitely won't take screenshots.