Completely Prevent Apps from Accessing Your Camera & Microphone on Android by Jake Peterson

We’re thinking more and more about our digital privacy these days. When we first started using smartphones, we’d download apps with reckless abandon, allowing permissions lists as long as novels in order to play free games. Now, we know that apps have access to things like our cameras and microphones, even when they shouldn’t. Luckily, taking away these permissions is easy.

It’s not just Android users that have this issue. Our iOS friends also have to manage their third-party apps’ camera and microphone permissions. Their method for preventing apps from accessing camera and microphone… more