A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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They can, they do, and you’ve installed software to facilitate their access, so yes, they are doing it.
A general rule of thumb is, do not allow them to install anything on your personal hardware. If they provide the hardware, fine, but you treat their hardware as hostile. You cover the camera and you put it in a place where it’s not going to hear anything. You cover it with pillows too, to muffle sounds from other rooms. Assume it’s watching and listening to all it can.
Any hardware you install their stuff on, consider it compromised. Disconnect the web cam or cover it up. Do your stuff on another device that it’s not installed on. (The reason it wants webcam access is so it can see if you’re looking away.)
Honestly, includes peripherals. USB storage devices at a minimum.