{"id":192,"date":"2015-11-23T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-10-11T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:45:31","slug":"detect-webcam-and-mic-usage-with-glasswire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/detect-webcam-and-mic-usage-with-glasswire\/","title":{"rendered":"Detect webcam and mic usage with GlassWire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><h1><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/webcam_mic_detection_antispy.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/webcam_mic_detection_antispy.png\" alt=\"webcam_mic_detection_antispy\" width=\"776\" height=\"445\"><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><b><\/b>These days not only can software installed on your PC easily access your webcam or mic, but now most browsers can too!&nbsp; Chrome, Firefox, and other modern browsers now have built in access to your webcam and mic with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WebRTC\">WebRTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want WebRTC to work in your browsers at all you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2015\/01\/27\/sites-may-detect-the-local-ip-address-in-browsers-supporting-webrtc\/\">turn it off completely<\/a> but some people need to use their webcam or mic with Firefox for online meetings or other online activities.&nbsp; It&#8217;s no fun to completely disable your webcam or mic.<\/p>\n<p>We at GlassWire also felt nervous not knowing when our PCs were using our webcam or microphones, so we built in an extra security feature with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/buy\/\">GlassWire Basic, Pro, and Elite<\/a>.&nbsp; After upgrading your version of GlassWire to one of our paid versions go to your settings, then click &#8220;security&#8221; and turn on the &#8220;Camera and mic monitor&#8221;. 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