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    Are your phone camera and microphone spying on you? | Dylan Curran

    Taping over the lens is just the first step in keeping online snoopers out of your business
    by Dylan Curran Apr 06, 2018 3 minutes
    The camera on your phone: who’s filming whom? Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian

    Here is what the former FBI director James Comey said when he was asked back in September 2016 if he covered his laptop’s webcam with tape.

    “Heck yeah, heck yeah. Also, I get mocked for a lot of things, and I am much mocked for that, but I hope people lock their cars … lock your doors at night. I have an alarm system, if you have an alarm system you should use it, I use mine.”

    If he does, we all should.

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