Don’t worry, WhatsApp isn’t actually using your phone’s microphone to listen in

Google finally acknowledged and fixed an Android bug that caused WhatsApp to gain unauthorized access to a smartphone’s microphone. If you’re not super familiar with the story, around early April some people began noticing, and reporting online, that the software was using their device’s mic without their consent. This issue came to a head on May 6 when Twitter engineer Foad Dabiri noticed WhatsApp had gained access to the microphone on his Pixel 7 Pro at least nine times in

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