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Health & Fitness

Someone May Be Watching You Through Your Laptop Camera

by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq.

In today's society and with recently disclosed acts of the current administration, it seems that privacy has largely become a thing of the past.  Perhaps George Orwell was a visionary when in 1949 he published his book entitled 1984.  It now appears that "Big Brother" is in fact  watching us.

While current day technology regarding eavesdropping is one thing, the FBI has taken surveillance technology to a whole new level.  The Washington Post has reported that the FBI is now capable of watching someone through their own laptop or computer camera without that person's knowledge.  Acting under the guise of "network investigative techniques", the FBI can reportedly secretly deliver their surveillance software to track someone when signing on to any computer, anywhere in the world.  The software reportedly can even covertly download files, photographs, stored e-mails and collect real time images by activating cameras connected to computers. 

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