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This confirms the good sense of covering the camera lens when not in use. For example, I've long stuck a narrow strip of paper, torn from the adhesive part of a Post-It note, to my MBA's camera lens, removing it when making a video call.
Can't replicate calling from either the Chrome extension or from within gmail.
It turns out that the current Hangouts defaults to the video call mode, even if the user intends to use voice only. So the camera gets activated even though it's not going to be used.
One workaround is to disable Hangouts and revert to the old setup, the one where you placed voice-only calls from within Google Mail. I do it this way simply because I don't have any contacts who do video calling.
takes a picture of you to store along with the metadata it sends to the NSA?
takes a picture of you to store along with the metadata it sends to the NSA?
Shame you are being down voted after the prism program has been made public. This is not as unlikely as it may sound.