They can spy on your webcam laptop without activating the led indicator !

Marcus Thomas, the former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division, confirm that the FBI is spying for years on selected integrated webcams and without triggering the webcam-light indicator, this one is considered a shocking news for laptop users, this might means one thing, the FBI have some sort of cooperation with laptop's webcam chips vendors, wait a minute, so they can spy on your smartphone's front camera !  And as usual he said that they use this technology only against "Terrorism" cases. 

According to the Washington Post, the agency has had the ability to covertly monitor computer’s cameras for years. Speaking to the newspaper, Marcus Thomas, the former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division confirmed that the agency has the ability. However, to calm fears that the Bureau has been spying on civilians via their computers without their knowledge for years, Thomas stressed that the ability has been used “mainly” in counter terrorism or serious criminal activities.

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