Study: Smart devices' ambient light sensors pose imaging privacy risk | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A computational imaging algorithm reveals that ambient light sensors, which are passive components embedded in the screens of smart devices to alter monitor brightness, pose an imaging privacy threat by exposing users’ touch interactions to hackers, MIT researchers find.

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