 Well this comes as no surprise, Android Camera App buglets apps record video without permission. A new vulnerability has been found in camera apps for millions if not hundreds of millions of Android devices that could allow other apps to record video, take pictures and extract the GPS data from media without having the required permission. Android app, Android apps expose various intent or functions such as ability to take a picture that can be executed by other apps on the device. In order to execute and expose the intent, other app has to have the needed permissions. In a coordinated disclosure with Google and Samsung researchers from the checkmark disclosed today that a new vulnerability that has allowed apps to take pictures, record videos or get a device location even if they do not have permission to do so. The vulnerability known as CVE 2019-2032-34 is known to affect the Google camera and Samsung camera apps if they have not been updated since July 2019. Well I would say this comes as a surprise but it's not a surprise to me. I think it's pretty clear right now that we're in a state, I mentioned this in my last video when I was talking about TikTok, if you missed that there should be somewhere here a little tab for that but we are in a state of surveillance capitalism. In fact I don't even like to use the word capitalism we can call it surveillance state crony capitalism. It's not real capitalism where people are voluntarily giving their information. In this case it's not even volunteering, this is straight neglect, it's criminal, they are stealing your data and a lot of this data is very valuable towards them. Data is a new oil and I implore you, it doesn't matter who you are that privacy is going to get more and more important. You see the boiling pot around the world, you see that things are heating up, you're having issues in Hong Kong, issues in Bolivia, issues in Venezuela, issues in Argentina, issues in France, big political divide in the United States between the left and the right. We have something similar in Canada not to that extent but more and more people are using social media or let's say the internet and social media as a medium for communication and through their means of communication they're exposing a shit ton of data and this data is used against you. It may not be used against you today but it may be used against you in the future. Who knows that maybe one day you're talking about a certain political party and they use that against you for the future or they realize and there's been real case studies on this they realize that you have a certain health there's there's a certain health defect with you or I'm gonna say defect but you have a certain condition and all of a sudden your insurance is canceled or your insurance premium goes up and like what the fuck what gives right or if you're another country like you're in a dictatorship where your sexual preference comes out you could be literally killed and so I kind of want to lay out some simple things you can do like this is in bulletproof but these are things that you can do today right now that offer you at least some base level privacy it's not bulletproof but at least something you know something is better than nothing it's always good to go from zero to one as peter teal talks about and it's always good to use a kaizen model so it's a compound effect how can you improve aspects of your life one percent and this this is a compound effect you know one percent per month it adds up so first simple things that you can do look at this they even have the actual thing over here i'll get to that afterwards but first simple thing that you can do for privacy is most people use chrome or they use firefox i prefer firefox over chrome i still use chrome for some business aspects for my personal search that i do online i would use i use i use two browsers i would you well three if you want to get really technical so i'll use brave so brave is a crypto browser a blocks ads and has decent privacy features then i would use opera and so opera has a built-in vpn which i'll be getting to a second and then finally i would use tor or onion network for other stuff and so what's good about the browser elise uh whether you're using firefox or you're using opera i would i would recommend opera for people at the beginning but because elise opera has a built-in vpn virtual private network and so if you guys are wondering why it's important to have a vpn is that's how they track that's how they track your activity they track through the ip so your internet provider that you're connected to has a certain internet protocol which is a bunch of numbers that's kind of think of your digital identity that represents you online and that's how they put cookies towards you that's how they put the trackers towards that that's your identity where you go online and they track that and so basically if you haven't been to china or if you haven't been to certain countries vpns are mandatory there's actually no way of you communicating with people other than using vpn so elise opera has a vpn built into it now there's a bunch of other options for vpns one option i use is this one ip vanish it's a simple one there's a shit ton out there this is the one i personally use they're okay it does the job you know i'm not looking for like crazy protection but this thing is on my phone and it's on my computer so use a good different browser so opera firefox or torah onion use a vpn the next things that you guys want to do is when it comes to email so most people use gmail i'm not against gmail i use gmail for a lot of things but let's say i'm talking to my relatives or i'm talking about sensitive medical stuff or i'm talking about stuff that i just want people to fucking know i would use proton mail so that's a pgp encryption mail it's free you can go check that out there's other other providers out there but proton mail is a good one and so that's one thing so that's email next thing that would do is most people will use certain messenger apps i know people think what's up is encrypted but i don't buy it it's owned by facebook people use telegram i just don't buy it the one that i prefer to use a signal um so the one caveat though no matter which encrypted in quotations app to use end to end encryption is one to one anytime that you're one too many meaning you're in a group it's not fucking encrypted whatsoever that's not encrypted encrypted is p to p person to person end to end encryption so use an app like signal there's another one like keybase those are good okay so what do we cover we have the browser we have the vpn you have the email like proton mail and you have app like signal the next step that you can take is a simple security feature just for your own security and privacy as well is to a phase so two-step verification the reason why two-step verification is good it elise adds a physical limitation when it comes to people taking your identity or pretending to be you whether in the crypto space people hijacking your stuff in exchanges or whether you know online banking or using your identity to coerce your accounts online so what to a phase for example you go to a website and the website will ask a certain code usually it's about six digits you have about 45 seconds to put in the six code digit and there's a couple of programs you use most people use google authenticator there's other ones called aughty depends on the service that you're using which one they'll connect to but what's really good about that is even if your phone gets ported since the google aught or these two a fa app it's rooted into the phone so even if they port your number they're not porting your two a phase so even if they get your name and address sorry if they get your username and password they still need your two a fa and you can even take a step beyond that without the app you can use i don't have it on me but you can use something called a ube key actually i do have it on me i do have a ube key you can use a ube key which is a physical hardware device for two a fa so it looks like this and basically facebook has this actually and you can use it on your phone so if you guys look at that it'll ask you for the two a fa for the phone you put that against your camera on the phone that ask that this acts as a security feature and if you're using facebook google anything like that they're going to ask for your two a fa physical key so you plug that into usb or you put that to your phone this adds a next layer of security okay like these things like i said it's not bullet proof but it's pretty much things that are almost free everything 90 percent of things that i mentioned are free operas free brave is free these vpns like i don't know 20 bucks a year so it's like five bucks a month or something like this i think there's ube key 60 bucks i think this is the neo ube key i believe yeah yeah it's it's the nano neo ube key there's a bunch of them they all do the same job but i don't think so i'm missing anything else i think those are like the basic stuff that anyone can do bottom line is even if you're not protecting yourself right now even if these steps might seem too much for you you at least get educated be aware of these things like listen the apps on your phone they collect data this data is sold off to the highest bidder it is the new oil data is oil you want to protect yourself you want to protect your freedom of speech you want to protect your identity you want to protect your sovereign right as a human being not to be exploited so i'll leave you at that if you guys have any questions about this any questions about privacy please leave a comment below this video make sure to like this video subscribe and share this video if you found value in this share it and i'll see you guys soon peace