I'll risk being pedantic, because it matters and I was very careful with my prior wording, enough that if you apply the same mental trick on a re-read, maybe what I intended will land.

Phones are not allowed in some forms of high security settings for most people, because that is the response to their place in the threat profile.

The fascists have to be abide by the same concepts, and they have their own threat profiles to contend with.

Doofus pictured is breaking the easiest solution to his profile with tape, because he's decided the convenience of having the phone outweighs the easy security of an assistant outside the secure digital perimeter standing by to relay messages, and has enough backing resources to even possibly back that hubris up.

Your comment has nothing to do with mine however.

Which is that the kind of person who needs to worry about having their camera remotely operated without their authorization, the kind of person for whom that level of care in their threat profile applies to, is no longer limited to just being the Head of Shitheads somewhere.

The technology to sort through a bunch of random cock and ball flashing random pictures to find the one time a target's phone captured something useful six months ago, is trivial now.

All it takes to go from not having your camera turn on as a concern, to it being wise to be covering your camera nowadays and in the near future, is simply having posted the wrong memes, and having the wrong sort of app on your phone or otherwise any sort of miscalculation in your software security profile.