[Silhouette]

I habitually cover the camera on my phone when I'm not using it. It's just common sense for any connected device running complicated software without hardware switches to turn the sensors off reliably. The latter would be better of course but there wasn't a practical option for it last time I was looking for a new phone.

[ridgered4]

Last time I looked only the pinephone had hardware switches, and they were under the case making it kind of clunky to turn them on and off.

[Silhouette]

It's definitely a niche market at the moment. It really shouldn't be given the implications of connected devices, sensors like cameras and microphones, and where those devices get taken by many of their owners. I believe we would have a much safer and more resilient society today if the norm had become for connected devices to follow the principle of least privilege and for there to be complete transparency about how any kinds of sensors and any kind of remote communication operated. But apparently the market has spoken (even though in most cases it was only given one "choice" of what to say).