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Tell HN: Chrome OS now has a "camera/microphone in use" icon
I just realized that in the notifications/date/time button in the taskbar in Chrome OS now has a "camera/microphone in use" icon while using the Camera app, and it was never talked about in its release notes in the Help app, so I just thought it would be helpful if I posted it here.
- nashashmi 3y agoTry posting a link to the documentation with the same title.
- neilsimp1 3y agoWell this is without a doubt a good move, I still take the cynical stance that using any sort of Google software and hoping for privacy is pointless.
- i5-2520M 3y ago"Hoping for privacy" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There are degrees of difference between collecting search, web history, telemetry and other usage data and between using the microphone / camera to record all the time to analyze it.