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The last two companies I’ve worked at have made me install some device management tool which requests permissions to do basically everything. It’s not clear what data the company actually gets and how many of the capabilities are being used.

I’d certainly appreciate info that says “yes, your screen is being recorded right now” rather than a long list of permissions.




There’s a green or blue icon that gets displayed in the menu bar when something is recording the screen/audio or using webcam since a few major releases ago.




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