I think you might be confusing 2016 with 2014 . On our current track we are leaving the EU ! <| sep |> This place will be the death of me <| sep |> Fuck privacy someone with access to your webcam could get images of you beating off , having sex , doing anything illegal you might do etc . A lot of us won ' t care but plenty of people could be blackmailed by those kinds of things . Some guy who works for the government caught on cam doing drugs ? Get 1000 people masturbating and threaten to release the pics of all of them if they don ' t pay you and you can bet your ass some % of them are going to pay . Any individual persons webcam is going to be boring as fuck most of the time but if you had access to a bunch of them and selected the right footage there ' s tons of scenarios of how you could use that against them . I too still think it ' s fairly paranoid to cover your cam and all that but then if people had a video of me jerking it and threatened me I ' d just tell them to share it anyway , I wouldn ' t be happy about it but I wouldn ' t be traumatised either .