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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by zzo38computer on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:35AM (#41214181)
Add a physical shutter to cover the camera when it is not in use. (In addition to avoiding spying, such a cover can also sometimes avoid the camera being dirty that it would not work when you are trying to scan something.)
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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by Nextgrid on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:42AM (#41214588)
That's an extra moving part that will break, get jammed, or will trap dirt/particles between the cover and lens and effectively sand off the lens over time.

The solution is proper, enforced anti-spyware and anti-stalking legislation (so not the GDPR), not hardware band-aids that are trivially bypassed.

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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by katzinsky on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:44AM (#41214594)
The real solution is a better software culture that looks like GNU/FOSS. Such a culture would generate laws like that if a problem persisted but likely wouldn't need them.
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Re:The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how by mvdwoord on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:45AM (#41216111)
The solution is cash.
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