today was the second time someone argued with me there is no need to worry about camera spying on modern day android because there is a green dot/light when the camera is actively accessed. i know that. however i always had the suspicion, is that true, is the green dot really shown when an app accesses the camera, or is there a way for apps to access the camera without triggering the green dot, so the green dot really just gives people a false sense of privacy while in reality apps are free to spy on the user. who controls the implementation of the green dot, is that trustworthy or not, and how do i know if it is or isnt.
i remember years back i found out snapchat is or atleast was constantly recording every user of their app, the camera was always active and recording, surprisingly the battery drainage was not really noticable and the phone didnt get hot in temperature. snapchat users thought the app only recorded when they hit record while in reality snapchat was recording at all times. if snapchat still does this today, wouldnt that mean that the green dot would have to be always active.
but the green dot isnt always active on android phones where snapchat is installed and actively running as a background process.
so either snapchat has stopped secretly recording at all times, or they still do it in such a way so that the green do is not triggered.

your Android provider… so you trust them? If not.. please return the device

oh, and they are controlled by the hardware manufacturer (or they are the same entity)

again, trust them …or not