[foobaw]

Just to be clear - users had to give explicit permission for that status update recording feature back in 2014. There are no external apps that can record audio on Android without permission unless Google explicitly whitelists the permission for the app. This never happens because there is no use case where the user shouldn't know.

One bad thing about this system for Android is how much control Google has over permissions - for example, their own built-in Shazam...

[code_duck]

Facebook's various apps ask for the microphone permission, anyway, for other reasons. How could we verify they aren't recording or analyzing audio at times?