Kinect was evaluated for mass surveillance by GCHQ

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Leaked documents have revealed that the UK intelligence agency GCHQ was evaluating the viability of utilizing the Xbox 360's Kinect camera for mass surveillance. This comes on the heels of news that the agency had collected secret webcam images from almost 2 million Yahoo users without consent. According to documents the Yahoo spying program lasted only six months but little seems to have been gained from it.

However, we're concerned about any reports of governments surreptitiously collecting private customer data. That's why in December we initiated a broad effort to expand encryption across our services and are advocating for legal reforms.Microsoft


When asked for comment regarding this matter specifically Microsoft officially stated that they "had not even heard of the program.

How do you feel about a british intelligence agency performing these kinds of acts?

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DanimalsPosted:

I will never use kinect again. forget it

InvictusPosted:

So, I'm basically getting spayed on?

SIKSPosted:

-Dynamic
Dorkus
Multitask
Kopa we all knew this was going to come


didn't expect them to spy on us i hope they don't do this for ps4 camera.


I don't think they will never sky on us i mean why would they waste their time doing that?


So your telling me that if you could watch what say 1 million people where doing you wouldn't ? They could watch them for any reasons ... Just saying.


I'm not saying they will never do that but it's xbox, they would probably rarely do that on xbox.

TravitorPosted:

-Dynamic
Dorkus
Multitask
Kopa we all knew this was going to come


didn't expect them to spy on us i hope they don't do this for ps4 camera.


I don't think they will never sky on us i mean why would they waste their time doing that?


So your telling me that if you could watch what say 1 million people where doing you wouldn't ? They could watch them for any reasons ... Just saying.


I don't refer it as spying, it's for research purpose only I'm sure.

-DynamicPosted:

Dorkus
Multitask
Kopa we all knew this was going to come


didn't expect them to spy on us i hope they don't do this for ps4 camera.


I don't think they will never sky on us i mean why would they waste their time doing that?


So your telling me that if you could watch what say 1 million people where doing you wouldn't ? They could watch them for any reasons ... Just saying.

-DynamicPosted:

I heard about loads of this stuff but it's all in the past now nothing to worry about i hope ...

MayburrryPosted:

This is crazy, I heard a bunch of people talking about Microsoft spying on people through Kinect.

SIKSPosted:

Multitask
Kopa we all knew this was going to come


didn't expect them to spy on us i hope they don't do this for ps4 camera.


I don't think they will never sky on us i mean why would they waste their time doing that?

MultitaskPosted:

Kopa we all knew this was going to come


didn't expect them to spy on us i hope they don't do this for ps4 camera.

KopaPosted:

we all knew this was going to come


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