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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pull open quick settings and tap the dot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Samsung at least, tapping the dot will tell you what's accessing what. I can't confirm if it works on other flavors of Android unfortunately.