Why the new Microsoft Surface devices don’t have a webcam shutter

Microsoft has one approach to webcam privacy. HP and Lenovo have another.

Microsoft’s Surface cameras may now be among the best around, one of many premium touches in Microsoft’s new Surface lineup. So why don’t they have a physical privacy mechanism? Documented cases of hackers listening in on baby monitors has prompted some electronics manufacturers to build them in, from buttons that turned off the microphone in smart speakers, to shutters that slide over cameras.
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