Everyone is blowing everything waaaay out of proportion.
I disagree, on the general observation that many technical systems are made to exceed their original design specs, sometimes in ways that no one could've possibly predicted. The obviously Orwellian stuff MS has in the pipe with Kinect 2.0 should be making everyone shit bricks.
VG-related examples:
-- PS3s being used as nodes in a supercomputer... by the US Air Force.
-- The Kinect 1.0's homebrew/hackerspace scene. Some of the mind-boggling stuff those guys have done, holy shit Dave.
-- The Orginaal Vidja Gaem (tm), Spacewar! (1962), utilized a radar display screen as its "monitor", because there was no other option at the time. A lot of general programming occurred through
teletype interfaces or
punch-cards in the '60s; the first CRT displays didn't ship until 1969, and didn't become common until the '70s.
...and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The only negative VG examples that quickly jump to mind are getting into hack & crack territory, which isn't really technically avant-garde, being a standard formula of 2 parts social engineering & 1 part technical trickery.
The broader field of Technology more than makes up for it, though. For things that will creep you out, news of a PA school using webcams to spy on students off campus back in 2010, and
internet predators/trolls using remote controls to nefarious ends. For stuff that'll keep you up at night, go look at the highlights coming out of DefCon or other black-hat conventions. (just pick a year at random)
So do you really want to make like a camera/mic combo that must be connected, cannot be disabled, and is always watching/listening (ostensibly for your "convenience")
isn't an incredibly slippery slope to start upon?