The privacy on this device is that of an Alexa. There is no camera kill switch and there is no microphone kill switch. When you go into the drivers and disable and restart the microphone still continues to work. When you insert a headset with a microphone the device continues to pick up ALL sound even when "switched" to audio input through headset only. The screen is of good quality and the touch screen is of good quality. I would say it was superior until I purchased a laptop $400 dollars cheaper and realized microsoft is not ahead of the game in any way shape or form with this laptop. In fact they are midrange on all accounts. However, the inability to have control over my devices makes them zero stars regardless of how fancy they are. Also the battery life isn't anything to write home about. And youtubers lied, the fans are noisy, and the computer hot, when you try and have several tabs open and word.