On: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

[michael1999]

The microphone does need to be connected to the phone. Not so much the camera.

[madeofpalk → michael1999]

Does it? The OS must be able to send audio to the phone modem (bluetooth, homepod, etc), so it seems reasonable to me that it wouldn't have direct access to the microphone and that would go via OS also.

[michael1999 → madeofpalk]

Not in theory, but certainly historically. Last I read, there was still an AT command channel present. Some of that IP is super old.