Phones and laptops are not the only gadgets with cameras spying on you. Cable modems do it, too.
Isn't that what mass surveillance by government is all about?
All it takes is for the Russians to break into that data base and watch you, or Hillary, or Trump, both the best that US has to offer for the leadership of the free world, in bed, fearlessly scratching their private parts.
It's not a pretty picture...
I have mentioned this before in one of these forums: you should watch "Das Leben der Anderen" which won the foreign Oscar in 2006, about the life of ordinary people, who had nothing to hide, watched by their friendly East German government.