GV Plekhanov, Associate Professor of Informatics at the Russian University of Economics, in a conversation with Alexander Timofeev “Hitting the Primer” concluded that there are several ways to learn about surveillance with a smartphone camera.
The expert stated that for starters, you can go to the phone settings. As Timofeev points out, many apps request or provide access to the camera by default. Expert recommends banning. The expert stressed that most apps work well without the ability to take pictures.
The second way to calculate surveillance is to pay attention to the battery life of a smartphone.
With the camera on all the time, the battery drains quickly. The expert recommended using the settings to determine where the main energy consumption goes. If it turns out to be a videotape, you may indeed be being followed.
Also, continuous video streaming from the camera leads to traffic consumption. You can limit or completely disable network connections for the camera.
Timofeev also called the most reliable way to protect against surveillance is to purchase a shutter with a shutter for the camera.
The former Russians saidWhy do you need to turn off GPS on smartphones? The vast majority of applications that users install on smartphones collect information about a person’s movement through built-in GPS or GLONASS systems. If such a program is hacked, attackers can gain access to the exact or approximate location of users and use this data for surveillance and other criminal purposes.