Am I being spied upon?

[frannbug]

I was trying out a couple of new apps from the App Store when a message appeared on my late 2006 MacBook Pro running Lion:

'PTPCamera quit unexpectedly'

I found this unnerving, particularly since I had not been doing anything requiring a camera, and the green light at the top of my screen wasn't on. Am I being paranoid or is there a chance someone out there is watching me? I say this because I am aware that some apps like iAlertU, for example, take photographs without any sound or green light. My two apps were Soulver and UK Salary Calculator, both number crunching apps.

 

[Intell]

No. That process is responsible for transferring pictures from digital cameras and mobile devices to the computer. PTP stands Picture Transfer Protocol. It's rather harmless process that can't do much.