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Zoom activated my mic and played "recording in progress" at 4AM

46 points by telmop 18d ago

telmop 18d ago
Last night at 4:00 AM, my Pixel 7 woke me up with Zoom's native voice prompt "Recording in progress", with the green mic indicator active on screen. My phone was idle on my nightstand out of reach and no Bluetooth device was connected. No Zoom account signed in and no active meeting. I uninstalled the app immediately after taking the screenshot, so I don't have access to any logs. After waking up this morning I realized I shouldn't have uninstalled. Is there any way to get logs of what happened now? I don't know what caused this, but it got me more paranoid about what runs on my phone. Has anyone experienced anything similar?
- tenarchits 18d ago
  You could start with a data subject access request: https://zoom-privacy.my.onetrust.com/webform/65962359-ef0d-4399-9db4-572d06de08aa/f277f9f7-bfee-4233-815e-80e290139bc2 https://zoom-privacy.my.onetrust.com/webform/65962359-ef0d-4....
  - ShinyLeftPad 18d ago
    That is definitely not one shady looking URL.
    - iAMkenough 18d ago
      Yeah, but OneTrust Was Named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms
      - snypher 18d ago
        At least I could walk right up to JD Power and shake His hand.
  - telmop 18d ago
    I'm going to give it a shot, thanks!
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jubilanti 18d ago
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- telmop 18d ago
  You're right, it's not tech support, and I didn't use it as such. HN is a tech forum, and I found this incident strange enough to warrant warning others. If you're not interested, you can simply ignore it
cyanydeez 18d ago
Is it possibly you have auto call meeting and auto record: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0081373 https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_arti... Probably check if you accidently a meeting.
- telmop 18d ago
  I did not have any meeting scheduled
  - cyanydeez 18d ago
    ok, because it zoom also has auto "recording in progress" notification ability.
OutOfHere 18d ago
What precisely on your device even alerts to microphone access?
- telmop 15d ago
  The pixel shows on screen an icon whenever he microphone is being used. The voice alert I got was from Zoom. This seems like a bug in their end, just a scary one

46 points by telmop 18d ago

Last night at 4:00 AM, my Pixel 7 woke me up with Zoom's native voice prompt "Recording in progress", with the green mic indicator active on screen. My phone was idle on my nightstand out of reach and no Bluetooth device was connected. No Zoom account signed in and no active meeting. I uninstalled the app immediately after taking the screenshot, so I don't have access to any logs. After waking up this morning I realized I shouldn't have uninstalled. Is there any way to get logs of what happened now? I don't know what caused this, but it got me more paranoid about what runs on my phone. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

tenarchits 18d ago
You could start with a data subject access request: https://zoom-privacy.my.onetrust.com/webform/65962359-ef0d-4399-9db4-572d06de08aa/f277f9f7-bfee-4233-815e-80e290139bc2 https://zoom-privacy.my.onetrust.com/webform/65962359-ef0d-4....
- ShinyLeftPad 18d ago
  That is definitely not one shady looking URL.
  - iAMkenough 18d ago
    Yeah, but OneTrust Was Named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms
    - snypher 18d ago
      At least I could walk right up to JD Power and shake His hand.
- telmop 18d ago
  I'm going to give it a shot, thanks!

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jubilanti 18d ago

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telmop 18d ago
You're right, it's not tech support, and I didn't use it as such. HN is a tech forum, and I found this incident strange enough to warrant warning others. If you're not interested, you can simply ignore it

cyanydeez 18d ago

Is it possibly you have auto call meeting and auto record: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0081373 https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_arti... Probably check if you accidently a meeting.

telmop 18d ago
I did not have any meeting scheduled
- cyanydeez 18d ago
  ok, because it zoom also has auto "recording in progress" notification ability.

OutOfHere 18d ago

What precisely on your device even alerts to microphone access?

telmop 15d ago
The pixel shows on screen an icon whenever he microphone is being used. The voice alert I got was from Zoom. This seems like a bug in their end, just a scary one