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Your Phone Is Spying On You
Claude found that your phone — iPhone or Android — is taking 10,000 secret pictures of you, every day.
THE RECENTLY DELETED FOLDER, WHICH APPARENTLY ISN’T (The Daily Whatever Press) — A man on Twitter (I’m never calling it X) says he plugged his Android phone into a laptop, told Claude Code to hunt for pictures of his face that he never took, and got back 14,219 of them.
He didn’t take them. His phone did.
The user goes by Cooler (@coolerwave), and according to Cybernews, he says the images came from the front-facing and infrared cameras that run face unlock. They stretched back about 15 months, complete with timestamps and location data, and they were parked in a cache folder for face unlock, nowhere near the gallery or Recently Deleted, where no normal human being would ever think to look.
“Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this,” he wrote.
Ew. Just…ewwww.
Then he ran the same search on an iPhone backup and, by his account, found more than 145,000 images and videos sitting under PhotoData/Thumbnails, some dating back to 2021, every one of them something he says he deleted. In the pile: a passport photo from a visa application, banking screenshots showing account numbers, a photo of an ID…
