What's the point of this, when audio is likely to be far more sensitive? I haven't heard of anyone covering microphones, and 99% of us carry one around 24/7.
" Haldeman: That the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters call Pat Gray and just say, “Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don’t want you to go any further on it.” That’s not an unusual development,…
Nixon: Um huh. "
A camera pointed at my face will, at worst, catch me picking my nose or something. A microphone will pick up all sorts of stuff I really don't want other people hearing. Audio is way worse.
<tinfoil_hat> Driving a car which has an unknown number of cameras, microphones, and is constantly connected (and can not be disconnected while still retaining the ability to drive the car)? Perhaps that's not a car I would ever be able to trust, and perhaps its not a car I should buy. </tinfoil_hat>
But covering the camera still helps. Some thread scenarios are solved by covering the camera. Not all of them, but nobody is going to get 100% security anyways. No reason to give up.