WhatsApp : A few days ago, a Twitter engineer accused WhatsApp. The engineer said that WhatsApp was accessing his microphone while he was sleeping. The engineer had made this allegation on WhatsApp from the point of view of insecurity. The user had indirectly accused the platform of silent espionage. This allegation attracted the attention of both the public and the media. Even Elon Musk had tweeted that WhatsApp cannot be trusted. After all this, WhatsApp also tweeted from its official account.
Whatsapp gave this answer
After making allegations on behalf of Twitter engineer, WhatsApp had to respond by tweeting from its official Twitter account. Told in WhatsApp that all this happened because of a bug, and not because WhatsApp is secretly monitoring users. The platform has reported that a bug with the privacy dashboard within the Android system is the reason. WhatsApp also said that they are contacting Google to investigate and fix this.
Over the last 24 hours we’ve been in touch with a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp.
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We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remedy. https://t.co/MnBi3qE6Gp
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 9, 2023
What did Google say?
According to Engadget, a well-known tech news and review website, a Google spokesperson has also confirmed that the report affecting WhatsApp users, resulting in incorrect privacy sign and notifications within the privacy dashboard, is an Android bug. Due to this bug, users felt that the app was accessing their microphone or device camera when it was not. Google assured the users that they are actively working to solve this problem in a new update of the Android operating system.
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