Hacker wrote an app to monitor when your phone’s camera is accessed, and the results are shocking!

Phineas P. Gage, of Internet Fame, was concerned about the government tracking him through his cell phone. So, he decided to find out.

He spent 4 months modifying Android’s latest operating system, tiramisu, to host a rudimentary AI, which he named Coraline.

To Coraline, the apps are like internal organs, and the phone’s inputs make up her five senses. They don’t map directly analogous, but her experiential frames are snapshots of the delta in inputs, plus a central nervous system based on what apps were making active calls to the system.

Coraline reported to Gage that the camera was taking a micro-resolution snap whenever he clicked on a headline.

At that point I had to code a script not let the nervous system tract or those pictures were being stored and when and how they were accessed after storage.

Gage found that the headline click-pics, as well as a time stamp, duration on click-through site, and whether the pic was followed by a social media share were all being recorded. The data was being uploaded during unused application updates.

When asked who was receiving the data and what it might be used for, Gage said:

I’ve cloned Coraline for a couple of friends, and they’re looking into where the stolen metadata goes, but I’m working on something else. Since the data includes the headline you clicked on, and your facial expression when you did, I could build an AI with that that would know exactly how gullible you were. By capturing whether or not you shared it, I would know exactly what sorts of this information I could spread through you.

Source: https://goo.gl/FXeYMK