{"id":253431,"date":"2026-05-23T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/that-green-dot-on-your-android-is-a-privacy-feature-most-people-ignore\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:05:07","slug":"that-green-dot-on-your-android-is-a-privacy-feature-most-people-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/that-green-dot-on-your-android-is-a-privacy-feature-most-people-ignore\/","title":{"rendered":"That green dot on your Android is a privacy feature most people ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/theres-a-dot-on-your-android-that-tells-you-when-an-app-is-secretly-using-your-camera-or-microphone\/\">That green dot on your Android is a privacy feature most people ignore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/theres-a-dot-on-your-android-that-tells-you-when-an-app-is-secretly-using-your-camera-or-microphone\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/theres-a-dot-on-your-android-that-tells-you-when-an-app-is-secretly-using-your-camera-or-microphone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 12:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a little green dot that shows up in the upper right corner of your Android screen whenever an app starts using your camera or microphone. You may have seen it and dismissed it, but did you know that tapping it reveals what app triggered this privacy feature? How about the fact that Android keeps a running log of this access, going back seven days?<\/p>\n<p>Google put this security feature into Android 12, and it&#8217;s super easy to use.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tYour Android Phone\u2019s Default Settings Are a Privacy Nightmare\u2014Here\u2019s What to Change Right Now<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Your Android\u2019s out-of-the-box settings aren\u2019t doing you any favors when it comes to privacy.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-the-dot-is-telling-you\">\n                        What the dot is telling you<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"a-live-signal-for-sensor-access\">\n            A live signal for sensor access<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                                   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/theres-a-dot-on-your-android-that-tells-you-when-an-app-is-secretly-using-your-camera-or-microphone\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That green dot on your Android is a privacy feature most people ignore https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/theres-a-dot-on-your-android-that-tells-you-when-an-app-is-secretly-using-your-camera-or-microphone\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/camera-green-dot.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253434,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253431\/revisions\/253434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}