In late 2014 was the last big webcam vulnerability "hype" I remember [1], which led to a wave of media attention, webcam covers, vendor statements that LED-control is / will be hard-wired etc.
I'm more interested how this big attention impacted future designs of laptops (like my cheap HP here, which has a built-in camera cover)
[1]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14/technical...