UW–Madison engineering professor Kassem Favaz (left) and graduate student Yucheng Yang analyzed the way popular video conferencing apps collect data, finding that at least one appears to collect all the audio from a user’s microphone even when “muted.” Credit: Photo contributed by researchers
Kassem Fawaz’s brother was on a videoconference with the microphone muted when he noticed that the microphone light was still on—indicating, inexplicably, that his microphone was being accessed.
Alarmed, he asked Fawaz, an expert in online privacy and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to look into …
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