There are a lot of conspiracy theories about the government watching every move we make. Some people are afraid to even have certain televisions. They do not want to have televisions that can connect to the Internet and refuse to connect to the Internet themselves. Now what would these conspiracy theorists make of this article is anyone’s guess. They are already paranoid about being watched through their televisions and computers, now someone is saying the iPhone camera could have been taken over by malicious apps that were downloaded from somewhere other than the Apple Store? Oh, yeah. Conspiracy theorists would eat that one up. We just have to watch what we download and from where to protect ourselves from this hack. There is a danger from the permissions that we allow for certain apps. However, there is more danger from downloading apps that have not been approved by the Apple Store or Google Play. Check it out: https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/iphone-camera-spying.html
Writing for the Information Professions, Fall 2017 