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@AIFrontliner: An Android user says Claude Code uncovered 14,219 photos of their face that they never took.
According to the post, the phone's front camera was quietly capturing frames almost every time it was picked up. On the train, in the car, in bed, even just to check the time.
None of it showed up in Gallery or Recently Deleted. The files were sitting in a system cache, each one stamped with the time and GPS location.
The user backed up the phone to a laptop and asked Claude Code to find any front-camera files outside the photo library. It pulled over 14,000 regular and infrared Face Unlock frames from /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and a folder inside Google Play Services, covering roughly 15 months.
The most unsettling part: a new file was created 2 seconds earlier, while they were still looking at the folder.
Google and phone makers say Face Unlock turns your face into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this device, the user says the raw frames stayed. Some of the processes writing to that folder came from system diagnostics, and a few old apps with camera permission could also get in.
Their fix: diagnostics off, camera access revoked from apps that don't need it, cache cleared. Whether any of those frames already left the phone is still unknown.
To check your own device, make a full backup or connect with ADB, then ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery.