
Plenty of Zoom users haven’t realised that their cameras were on, or that when joining a Zoom call that the call host might have configured the call to start with user cameras on. That said, user privacy can be violated by a simple accident, and without malicious intent.

If even the creator of Facebook blocks his, who else should?Īpple’s release of iOS 14 has done even more to safeguard users from unintentionally recording with its new orange and green dots. The rapid growth of remote and home-working has led to a lot of users getting webcams or setting up Zoom equipment in their own homes. Mark Zuckerberg inadvertently brought attention to the risks of users being covertly monitored through their computer’s webcams or mics when he posted a now-infamous photo of his desk setup, showing his laptop with a covered webcam and blocked mic. But just how secure are your Mac and PC webcams? Could we be being watched? Here, the tech experts at Reincubaterun you through the risks, says Aidan Fitzpatrick, founder & CEO at Reincubate. Sometimes these even take place in our bedrooms.


With the rapid rise in remote working, more of us than ever before are taking video calls from the privacy of our own homes.
