No secret NSA Xbox One Kinect conspiracy, Xbox exec claims
Concerns over Kinect's more surreptitious possibilities were raised as far back as May when the device was revealed. Days after the next-gen console was showcased for the first time, Peter Schaar, Germany's federal commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, claimed:
"The Xbox continuously records all sorts of personal information about me. Reaction rates, my learning or emotional states. These are then processed on an external server, and possibly even passed on to third parties. Whether they will ever [be] deleted, the person can not influence".
The controversy coincided with a major scandal sparked by former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed that data from the world's biggest software companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft et al) were provided to state officials, in many cases in a manner that has no legal protection.
Since those revelations, Microsoft has come under significant scrutiny regarding its privacy policies. In July it was discovered that Microsoft supplied email and Skype details to the NSA. The corporation said it was legally bound to not discuss the matter openly.
Doubts and suspicions over Microsoft's handling of personal data has not abated. Late in September, a former Microsoft privacy adviser said he no longer trusts the company after reading about the NSA mass-surveillance operation.
Days later it was revealed that Microsoft handed over the personal information of more than a thousand customers to Australian government agents in the first half of 2013.
The assumed fear is that Microsoft will use, or be forced to use, Kinect as part of the state's mass surveillance operations. But on Thursday a marketing executive, Albert Penello, made some assurances about customers' control over Xbox.
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UPPERECHELON1Posted:
Everyone is just prejudice against Microsoft, apple also gave them information, and yet millions still buy their iPhones and computers!
YinPosted:
Seem most people are worried cause they do illegal stuff hahahah
I worry. I do nothing that is illegal, and I still worry. If they can get cameras like the Kinect in your home so willingly, then they can get them in through other things eventually, like TV's. That is a huge problem. The government can and most likely will study us with that information. They could eventually know almost everything about you and know your next move before you do (since we are creatures of habit after all.) Every home could eventually have one as a surveillance camera for the government. That could easily give government enough eyes and ears for a true police state. This itself isn't that bad, but it can lead into something that is horrific if it goes the wrong way (which is the only way I see it going.) It's a huge privacy concern. It could very well turn into a freedom concern (may be distant future, but the change into it has to start somewhere.)
Dr-JPosted:
Seem most people are worried cause they do illegal stuff hahahah
Yeah lol, I don't know why people have the issues of fear if they're doing nothing wrong.
AdamuPosted:
AwesomeSauce69 I will just play naked then, bet they would like to see that.
Lol all you see is everyone at microsoft looking at you and saying lets record him and put him on youtube.
MPAAPosted:
AwesomeSauce69 I will just play naked then, bet they would like to see that.
I would like to know the outcome like if you get suspended for no particular reason you can then assume they were spying on you.
Even more interesting, strict child porn laws and underage gamers being spied on by MS or even NSA.
I think the NSA is like a spoiled child, always exempt from punishment and gets whatever it wants.
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