Sauter said she's been covering her laptop camera for the past four or five years. Women, political dissidents at higher risk Unsurprisingly to many, women tend to be targets for this kind of hacking.

You can also buy stick-on laptop camera covers that slide shut. Some laptops, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad and the MSI Prestige (below), have built-in privacy covers for their webcams.

But even if you think you have nothing to hide from government operatives, it doesn't mean no one wants access to your camera. In 2013, a hacker hijacked the laptop webcam of Miss Teen USA and ...

Don’t cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display. Consumers should rely on the green camera indicator light adjacent to their laptop camera, Apple told ...

Covering a camera and a microphone on a laptop with a dark tape, entering a password under the blanket – all this was perceived as a joke up to some point in time.

The Nintendo Switch 2 Camera is cute and functional, but you might not need it yet I tried the Acer Swift X 14 and it may be the creator laptop to beat — and the RTX 5070 GPU isn't why ...

That is, unless you could the impossible. Which is what Lenovo has done with its new Yoga Slim 9i, a new laptop announced at CES 2025.The laptop claims to use the world’s first “camera-under ...

A woman is zooming in on her snap decision to call out her friend. After accusing her friend of being paranoid for covering up the camera on her work laptop, she pondered on Mumsnet if she’s ...

The laptop runs on an 8th generation Intel i7 8550U processor, with 8 or 16GB of RAM and 256 or 512GB of storage. Huawei says it went with the U series instead of the more power-efficient M series ...