Why would "Live Photo" automatically record anything without my orders?

You don’t. It only works on the 6S and 6S+. And it is only supposed to record when you have the camera app open and it only grabs a few seconds before and after you take a picture. It dumps all the photos from RAM if you don’t actually take a picture. And RAM is so limited they must be cleared ASAP so it is isn’t like it is recording everything. A photo can easily eat up 5MB and if it is doing 24 a second That is around 120MB a second of RAM use. Your phone only has 512MB of RAM. And if it dumped them to the flash storage that would be gone in 16 seconds.

There is a reason why this only works on the new phones with 2GB of RAM.

Everybody seems to be in the business of recording everyone else’s business these days.

Yesterday @seek sent me a link to an on-line eyeglass store. I opened it, but didn’t even enable scripts on it.

Minutes later, I open an NBC news story and the ‘sponsored ads’ are all for on-line eyewear companies. It pisses me off.

@johnpowell Has this correct.

There is nothing shady to worry about. The info isn’t ever leaving your device. It’s only pre-recording when you’re in the camera app, and it’s constantly deleting the pre-recorded data buffer. Not to mention that your version of the iPhone isn’t even capable of doing this anyways.

But I have a 4s, so why would their update lead me to believe my phone has this capacity when it doesn’t? Are the folks at Apple unable to make a notification that actually makes sense for my 4s phone, or is that too hard for them?