The social network giant insisted that they never access cameras or microphones without expressed consent. Eventually, the compny said there was a bug in their app and it was responsible for false notifications that Instagram was accessing the cameras. Facebook promised it would fix the issue.
“We only access your camera when you tell us to — for example when you swipe from Feed to Camera. We found and are fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren’t. We do not access your camera in those instances, and no content is recorded,” according to spokesperson for the company.
Conditi argued in her complaint hat the Instagram’s use of the camera is not an accident or caused by a bug. She accused the company of intentionally collecting, “lucrative and valuable” users’ data “that it would not otherwise have access to.”
Additionally she alleged that Instagram and Facebook are intentionally “obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes,” to obtain “valuable insights and market research.”
