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Making the spying impossible is better than any regulations or auditing.


With a separate camera and microphone, I just unplug them when not in use. For the builtin camera, I put a sticker over it.

I have zero faith in any software lockouts.


On a linux-like system, one could block access using file permissions, e.g chmod a-r /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c for a microphone. Probably less easy to do on Android, though.



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