Software initiated camera and microphone indicator

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause the one or more processors of the electronic device to perform operations comprising:

• activating a sensor device to gather one or more of environment metadata or multimedia data;
• automatically enabling a privacy indicator in response to a determination that the sensor device is activated to gather the multimedia data to be transmitted to an application processor of the one or more processors;
• and
• automatically disabling the privacy indicator in response to a determination that the sensor device is activated to only gather the environment metadata exclusive of the multimedia data to be transmitted to a secure processor of the one or more processors and not the application processor of the one or more processors.

A data processing system within a device, the data processing system comprising:

• a display device;
• a memory device storing instructions;
• and
• one or more processors to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• activating a sensor device to gather one or more of environment metadata or multimedia data;
• automatically enabling a privacy indicator in response to a determination that the sensor device is activated to gather the multimedia data for processing by a secure processor or an application processor of the one or more processors of the data processing system;
• and
• automatically disabling the privacy indicator in response to a determination that the sensor device is activated to only gather the multimedia data for processing by the secure processor and not the application processor of the data processing system.