Because Im sure there's people that are just itching to watch you play COD Ghosts in your underwear for 5 hours straight :P

Never cared with my built in-camera on my laptop

:D

True, I don't really worry about those streetlight cams or ones I can't see..but it really irks me when I walk in a store and see a tv of me coming in with a derpy look. Additionally, I hate being in someone's house with a camera pointed at me. I don't care if the camera is on, if I know it's on.

Well, this is why we fought to get Kinect to be able to turn off. It can be, so there's not too much to worry about. As for phones, I don't have a smart phone, and if I did it'd be in my pocket, where all they'd see is black. As for webcams, my webcam let's me know if something is trying to turn it on, and even if a program could get through that, it turns on a light whenever it's on, so I'd know if it was being used this way.

Still, this does show that it was worth fussing over and getting them to change the policies.

If you have no problem, then please post about a dozen personal pictures of yourself in this thread. Alternatively, simply admit that you are talking BS.

Sounds like you're not really getting the problem. They are collecting pretty much any useful information they can get, about anyone, no matter if these people are currently being considered criminals or "law-abiding citizens". If later on a specific person ever catches the state's attention, they instantly have access to a sheer endless plethora of very personal information they collected over the years that they can use against you.

For the vast majority of the population, this will probably never be a very personal problem, as they are simply to unimportant. Their naked dick pictures will be stored on some NSA data center, but no human will ever look at it. The intelligence services are mainly interested in very influential people like politicians etc., not the average citizen. But this doesn't mean that the average citizen is unaffected. If the high profile people running the important institutions are affected (for example by threatening them to publish compromising information they collected), the average citizen is affected as well.

Just remember PORNINT, which proves that intelligence services are indeed collecting information like porn viewing habits to discredit people who express "controversial ideas" on popular social media websites like YouTube, Facebook etc.