Mark Zuckerberg puts a sticker over his Macbook camera to block snooping hackers
He made billions by asking us to share every detail of our existence with Facebook. Now it's claimed Zuck has a different stance when it comes to his own privacy
What have you told Facebook today?
It might appear as if you've only uploaded a few pictures of your beautiful bowl of quinoa or innocently "liked" your favourite organic sex toy brand.
But in fact you've revealed masses amount of information about yourself which is hugely valuable to modern advertisers.
Mark Zuckerberg, of course, doesn't want you to hold back when it comes to telling his social network more or less everything about your day-to-day existence.
The billionaire believes privacy is a relic of a bygone age, a concept as obselete as the brick-style mobile phones and pagers we once used to talk to our chums.
Now people are questioning whether Zuck practices the radical openness he preaches, after a picture appeared to show he had taped up the camera and microphone on his Macbook computer.
Paranoid people are known to seal up these two parts of their devices due to fears cyber-voyeurs could use them to spy on innocent people.
"Mark Zuckerberg, a man who runs a service that collects the personal information of more than a billion people daily, seems to be worried about being spied on," wrote Gizmodo's William Turton.
"Sophisticated hackers are able to secretly take control of a laptop camera, so Zuckerberg is beating any would-be hackers to the punch by rendering the webcam useless with a piece of tape."
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Last year, one British hacker was found to have spent up to 12 days watching people through their webcams.
He used a program called Blackshades to crack into computers so he could gawp at them having sex or performing intimate solo acts whilst communicating on Skype.
Angela McKenna, senior investigating officer for the National Crime Agency's Cyber Crime Unit, said: “People using malicious tools like Blackshades can massively violate the privacy of their victims, and use compromised computers to facilitate further crime."
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