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    On Facebook, even Harvard students can’t be too paranoid | Tim Dowling

    Now computers spy on us and typing speeds betray emotions, it’s touching that the smartest students in the land still think they can offend in private
    by Tim Dowling Jun 06, 2017 2 minutes
    CAMBRIDGE, MA - MAY 25: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at the Alumni Exercises at Harvard's 366th commencement exercises on May 25, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zuckerberg studied computer science at Harvard before leaving to move Facebook to Paolo Alto, CA. He returned to the campus this week to his former dorm room and live streamed his visit. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

    The other day I noticed that the little green light next to the camera built into my computer screen was on. It’s perfectly possible that I had recently used some app that required the camera, and forgotten about it; but I couldn’t find a way to turn it off. It’s unlikely anyone was really watching me pretend to work, but my computer definitely was.

    Either way, it started, but that seemed a little unhinged. Perhaps, I thought, I should just put some tape over the green light.

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