Creating awareness of accessed to privacy-sensitive devices

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a display communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and configured to display content;
• and
• memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the one or more processors to perform operations, comprising:
• monitoring an application to determine when the application requests to receive a data stream captured by a passive, privacy-sensitive device;
• detecting that the application has requested to receive the data stream captured by the passive, privacy-sensitive device;
• provisionally blocking the receiving of the data stream for a predetermined amount of time;
• determining if a request submitted by the application to access the data stream captured by the passive, privacy-sensitive device has been granted by determining whether a module of the computing device is in one of a default-on mode and a default-off mode, wherein the application is determined to have granted the request in response to determining that the module is in the default-on mode, and wherein the application is determined to have granted the request in response to determining that the module is in the default-off mode and when authorization is received to allow the application to access the data stream;
• and
• displaying, on the display in response to the determining that the application request has been granted, a graphical icon indicating that the application is requesting to receive the data stream, the graphical icon indicating that the receiving of the data stream has been provisionally blocked, and the graphical icon includes an animation based on a remaining time of the predetermined amount of time that the receiving of the data stream is provisionally blocked.