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My Asus laptop has one. It's small and green, and if it weren't there, I would always be paranoid that my laptop was spying on me.

All Macs that have cameras do. And it shows to the OS as a USB sensor. Obviously there must be ways to turn it on without lighting the light,

The camera LED is wired in series to the camera sensor itself. You can't power the camera without having the LED turn on.

Conversely, you can't turn on the camera LED without having the camera powered.

This is true of new MacBooks, I have been told it is not true of all models of Macs.