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I'm far less concerned about the videoconference system hearing me than my other meeting participants. This morning during a boring company-wide meeting I accidentally fell asleep (it was an early morning meeting and I was still in bed!)
All that said, it should really be a right of consumers that audio and video capture devices have a physical on/off switch.
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On Linux at least, Teams continue to grab the microphone even after the meeting has ended. You can see this by looking at apps registered for "recording". I'm not sure how that can be justified. Besides privacy, the issue is that this prevents the sound card from going to sleep, which may be an issue on laptops. But I guess this is insignificant compared to the rest of Teams' power consumption.
Teams is a real clustefuck, I do not believe it is a design decision but rather just poorly written code.
I am one of the authors of the paper in this thread. You can find the paper here: https://wiscprivacy.com/papers/vca_mute.pdf. I can also answer any questions you have about the research.
I always switch off on my mike itself. Better.
> “With a camera, you can turn it off or even put your hand over it, and no matter what you do, no one can see you,” says Fawaz. “I don’t think that exists for microphones.” Maybe it doesn't exist on whatever sleek glassy slabs they're working with, but the old Thinkpad, Elitebook, and Precision workstation laptops I have around me at the moment all have dedicated microphone mute buttons (the Precision has a Fn key c…
I think Apple picked the right middle ground by making access to the mic and camera a permissions request as well as showing a clear indicator to the user whenever these are active. Steve jobs said the best UI is to ask the user for their data when you want it and keep making them aware of this access every time you use it.
No expectations of privacy should be the norm when you have mics and cameras. In fact, cameras are easy to handle. Just cover it with something and you're done. Nice continue to listen even if you block them
It's always been risky to trust the mute button, even before zoom etc. The rules have been the same for at least 30 years. Never send an email or other type of text message you don't want the whole world to see. Never say anything on a conference call, even when muted, you wouldn't say when not muted. Ethically any audio chat software shouldn't transmit any audio it receives when muted. The "hey, you are muted" notif…
Isn't it common knowledge by now that cameras and microphones are still "on" even if you disable it at the software level? Zuckerburg has been taping webcam/microphones/etc for a while now. Though being the CEO of a major corporation requires you take privacy more seriously. https://www.macworld.com/article/228326/mic-drop-how-to-keep...
No. Can you provide evidence.
Because that would imply that applications are routinely bypassing OS security controls. Which at least on a Mac requires a sophisticated compromise i.e. the camera light is directly linked to the camera itself via an independent subsystem.