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Cooler@coolerwave·4,384 followers·17d ago

BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home. Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time. They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted. Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location. Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this. Google and the phone m

Cooler@coolerwave·4,384 followers·19d ago

BREAKING: Claude Code found 12,847 photos of my face on my iPhone that I never took. It looked like the phone was taking them every time I picked it up. From the club. From home. At a red light while I was driving. Almost every time I took the phone in my hands there was a frame. They were sitting in a system cache with timestamps and location data. None of them were in Photos. I plugged the phone into my MacBook and asked Claude Code to scan for any front-camera files that weren’t in my Photos library or Recently Deleted. It flagged Private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.faceid. Over 12,000 files. Mix of infrared frames and regular front-camera images. Each one had a timestamp and GPS coordinates attached. I started scrolling. Most were from the last 14 months. Then I saw one from four seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Apple says the TrueDepth system turns the capture into a mathematical model inside the Secure Enclave and discards the image. On this phone the

Cooler@coolerwave·4,384 followers·20d ago

Claude Code found 214,856 photos and videos I permanently deleted from my Android. Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with storage access can read them. After the iPhone post I plugged my Pixel into the MacBook and asked Claude Code to check for leftover deleted files. It immediately pointed at a folder I had never opened. DCIM/.thumbnails. Over 215,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted. Claude Code said most of them were not listed in the gallery trash or in MediaStore. Photos from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Trash. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there. Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2024. Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible. Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup. Screenshot of my crypt