I'm thinking perhaps a standardized open design circuit that can you can view by opening up back cover and zooming in with a microscope.
feel like privacy tech like this that seemed wildly overkill for everyday users becomes necessary as the value of collecting data and profiling humans goes through the roof
The value of the data you willingly transmit (both to data brokers, as well as in terms of the harm that it could do to you) via the use of apps (that are upfront about their transmission of your private data) and websites is far, far greater than the audio stream from inside your house.
If you don’t want your private information transmitted, worry about the things that are verifiably and obviously transmitting your private information instead of pointlessly fretting over things that are verifiably behaving as they claim.
Do you have the Instagram or Facebook apps on your phone? Are you logged in to Google?
These are much bigger threats to your privacy than a mic.
The sum total of all of your Telegram, Discord, and iMessage DMs (all of which are effectively provided to the service provider without end to end encryption) is way more interesting than 86400 images of you sitting in front of your computer with your face scrunched up, or WAVs of you yelling at your kids. One you knowingly provide to the service provider. The other never leaves your house.
Definitely not. Neither Face ID nor the recently added “screen distance” feature in Screen Time use the camera indicator, and both use cameras (and lidar scanners) continuously
It's annoying difficult to try and find an article about it, but IIRC there was a hack for the MacBook Pro's green camera LED where toggling the camera on and off super quickly would wouldn't give the LED time to light up
