Nothing stops a malicious actor for waiting for no activity on the machine before flicking the camera on, taking a picture, and then turning it off. https://en

Nothing stops a malicious actor for waiting for no activity on the machine before flicking the camera on, taking a picture, and then turning it off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School... Students were particularly troubled by the momentary flickering of their webcams' green activation lights, which several students reported would periodically turn on when the camera was not in use, signaling that the webcam had been turned on.[9][23][25][48] Student Katerina Perech recalled: "It was just really creepy." After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images. Apple is advocating for a strategy to preserve the privacy of its users that demonstrably does not work.