With Android P, camera and microphone would be prohibited access for any non-active application in the background.
Next iteration of the mobile operating system, Android P is still far from being officially unveiled. Several indiscretions and speculations are already circulating on the basis of the code and submissions to the project AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
In particular, changes should be made to enhance the protection of the user's privacy. This is in any case what functions "No camera for idle uids" and "Do not record audio if UID is idle" suggest.
XDA-Developers analyzes that their goal will be to block access to the camera and microphone for any application that is not actively used and running in the background. A priori, enough to prevent spying.
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Admittedly, we can say that from the moment the user has not given the right to an application to have access to the camera or the microphone, there is nothing to pour into a crisis. 'spy mania. Except that some permissions granted may fall into oblivion and turn against the user. Not to mention the possibility of malicious applications.
Implicitly, another effect of such functions would be to improve the battery life, since there will be no data processing by the applications in the background. For applications in the foreground, there would obviously be no impact.
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