Is covering a webcam a must nowadays?

I have been always using a piece of tape to cover the webcam. This has the drawback that eventually the glue makes a mess.

I just got a new Macbook and I was wondering, does it really matter nowadays?

We have a lot of controls now that we didn't have in the past. For example:

* At the hardware level, the issues of 15 years ago where you could turn on the camera without enabling the LED have been long …

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