Xbox one - A serious privacy breach

[eSko]

1st point: It is not shifting to TV instead of games. It is keeping games and adding TV. As it seems from leaks, Xbox One and PS4 both have almost identical hardware, so it's not like Microsoft is abandoning gamers. They are just removing the need to switch between multiple black boxes when you want to switch content on the screen.

2nd point: As far as privacy violation accusations goes, it's more attention whining than presenting facts. It's note like Microsoft will stream your camera footage to big surveillance center in Redmond. It's exactly the same as thinking that Google will spy on you thru Glass... Not. Going. To. Happen. Tinfoil heads can just disconnect Kinect and they are perfectly safe as all the sensors are located inside of it and not the console itself.

[PBALLER325]

1st point: It is not shifting to TV instead of games. It is keeping games and adding TV. As it seems from leaks, Xbox One and PS4 both have almost identical hardware, so it's not like Microsoft is abandoning gamers. They are just removing the need to switch between multiple black boxes when you want to switch content on the screen.

2nd point: As far as privacy violation accusations goes, it's more attention whining than presenting facts. It's note like Microsoft will stream your camera footage to big surveillance center in Redmond. It's exactly the same as thinking that Google will spy on you thru Glass... Not. Going. To. Happen. Tinfoil heads can just disconnect Kinect and they are perfectly safe as all the sensors are located inside of it and not the console itself.

im glad someone has a sane mind left.........

[Jaerin]

1st point: It is not shifting to TV instead of games. It is keeping games and adding TV. As it seems from leaks, Xbox One and PS4 both have almost identical hardware, so it's not like Microsoft is abandoning gamers. They are just removing the need to switch between multiple black boxes when you want to switch content on the screen.

2nd point: As far as privacy violation accusations goes, it's more attention whining than presenting facts. It's note like Microsoft will stream your camera footage to big surveillance center in Redmond. It's exactly the same as thinking that Google will spy on you thru Glass... Not. Going. To. Happen. Tinfoil heads can just disconnect Kinect and they are perfectly safe as all the sensors are located inside of it and not the console itself.

How do you know its not going to happen? We already get our emails and cellphone data hijacked by the government all the time without any kind of indication to us that its happening or happened. Who's to stop anyone from sending a sopena to Microsoft to intercept the audio/video that may or may not be getting picked up inside a house? LEO can already do things remotely activating cell phones and putting them into listening mode. I understand the desire to want to make things more accessible, but as long as someone other than the owner gets to decide how that data is used it has HUGE security and privacy implications. Does that mean that it will automatically happen? No it doesn't, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean what advantage is there to having it listen ALL the time just so you don't have to push a button on a controller/remote. It's no more accessible its just eliminating one-step...not even a difficult step at that.

[Ket]

According to this article, evidently anyone carrying a cell phone should be even more fearful as it is actually a tracking device with viewing and listening abilities. People will whine and complain about anything.

[eSko]

How do you know its not going to happen? We already get our emails and cellphone data hijacked by the government all the time without any kind of indication to us that its happening or happened. Who's to stop anyone from sending a sopena to Microsoft to intercept the audio/video that may or may not be getting picked up inside a house? LEO can already do things remotely activating cell phones and putting them into listening mode. I understand the desire to want to make things more accessible, but as long as someone other than the owner gets to decide how that data is used it has HUGE security and privacy implications. Does that mean that it will automatically happen? No it doesn't, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean what advantage is there to having it listen ALL the time just so you don't have to push a button on a controller/remote. It's no more accessible its just eliminating one-step...not even a difficult step at that.

To be honest, government doesn't give a sh*t about what you do in your living room unless you are labeled as potential threat, which I definitely am not. So I don't give a sh*t either. I don't think I am important enough to be spied on by government or Microsoft.

[ieatglueandstuff]

Is it really responsible or necessary to quote and propagate more nonsense when you read a conspiracy theorist's point of view? As a developer I 100% know it isn't going to be some kind of big brother operation, and wtf are we worried about?? A massive portion of the population has "Smart Phones", while it is crazy and over dramatized the system used in Batman to 3d sonar the world is theoretically possible.

[Jaerin]

Is it really responsible or necessary to quote and propagate more nonsense when you read a conspiracy theorist's point of view? As a developer I 100% know it isn't going to be some kind of big brother operation, and wtf are we worried about?? A massive portion of the population has "Smart Phones", while it is crazy and over dramatized the system used in Batman to 3d sonar the world is theoretically possible.

It doesn't matter if you think it is no improbable that it would be used. It has ZERO benefit and a HUGE loss of potential privacy. If the data is there and law enforcement knows that it is there, it's a warrant away from being theirs. For what? So you don't have to pick up the controller/remote and push a button before you use your device? You probably have to push the button to turn your TV on as well so its not like you don't have to push the button anyways.

[CreativeXtent]

The title is misleading.... it is not a privacy breach at all... all this hatred is not founded very well..

[Harambeqt]

And Origin was scanning your harddrives and banning people for piracy...?
...No

[CHandest]

I bet Tim Vines likes Playstation more :-)

[burtpulizzi]

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