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Don’t let webcams and laptops spy on you: preserve your privacy with the automatically-closing spring-loaded manual camera cover!

Feb 14, 2022

Cameras / Photos / Video, Computers, Design, Household

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Background: In the modern era, people generally have at multiple wirelessly-enabled Internet-accessible cameras and microphones (Figure 1) within arm’s reach for 90% of their waking hours. The Issue: The proliferation of cameras in the home can pose a privacy issue: the only thing preventing a camera and microphone from turning on is software, which means…
Throw away your laptop privacy screen and use this camera-plus-software approach for the ultimate in security!

Dec 30, 2019

Cameras / Photos / Video, Computers, Design, UI / UX

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Background: Laptop privacy screens (or “monitor filters”) reduce the viewing angle of a laptop screen in order to prevent evildoers from snooping on sensitive information on your laptop (Figure 1). The issue: Unfortunately, these privacy screens have a few downsides: They are inelegant to attach. Often, the attachment points block a small amount of screen…