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“Our most interesting finding was that the vast majority of video conferencing apps retain access to the microphone, even when the user is muted,” Fawaz said. “There is no technical safeguard preventing them for processing the user’s audio (while muted) if they decide to do so.”

In addition, Fawaz said their findings showed that a popular app continuously accessed the microphone even if the user is muted and used that information to send periodic telemetry packets.