• youngalfred
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    9 days ago

    Like doing homework in your room? Where now the monitor can turn on your webcam without you knowing and watch you in your personal space?

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      And again; I think that’s a bit of a separate issue. These devices shouldn’t be equipped with cameras, let alone have the camera monitored/accessible.

      The actual activity happening on the device; running applications, what’s on screen/in storage, even it’s location (with informed notice of said tracking) sure. but there’s no need to monitor/access the camera regardless of how or where the device is used.

      A simple piece of tape fixes this problem. (plus education to teach students why, ofc)

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      9 days ago

      When doing zoom calls for work I do it behind a curtain. Nobody sees my home at all. Then I cover the cam when not in use. These are just common sense privacy measures we should be teaching them anyway.

    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      tape on the computer camera? my family’s done that for years on all/most of our devices lmao