>>And the two pieces I mention are not crapware, they are spyware.
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>Hi Dragan! :)
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>My recent laptop purchase includes a facial recognition software to use as a biometric security device. There are fingerprint scanners on many laptops. The software on them activates them when it's possible you might want to log in with your finger. There is a plugin which does it for the browsers and the scanner goes active when the machine waits for me to log in. Is the camera doing something more? If not, I can't see it as spyware per se. If the data was being uploaded somehow, maybe then it's spyware?

Are you absolutely sure the data won't ever leave your laptop? Or, if it's stolen, that nobody can connect the data on it with you?