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Sony now warns users that others may record voice party chats on PSN
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MISTER INVEIGLER
Member
It's For The Players safety of course.
Grinchy
Banned
Care to explain that? And you may want to actually read past the thread title firstMy how the 2013 tables have turned
RyanEvans21
Member
its for voice command! and also you can mute it. unlike kinect it secretly recording you.
MISTER INVEIGLER
Member
Please be aware that voice chats in parties may be recorded
Then asking you to agree to the terms lol.
SilentUser
Member
WTF? People really are trying to stir some shit up, it seems. Sony are saying OTHER PEOPLE MAY record it and send it to Sony, how is any of that Sony's fault when it comes to privacy? Someone should change the title of this thread.
Dolomite
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RyanEvans21
Member
Op from other team. you can check his post history.
This is just a big pile on thread now. How to call up a mod?
Read it slowly this time.
This is clearly Sony covering their backs and updating their TOS. If they ban someone who was recorded in party chat and their TOS don't say others can record you, then surely thats not legal.
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SilentUser
Member
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Its currently trending on twitter as people are understandably upset by this change.
I saw this earlier on Twitter and was like, ewww that's creepy. I don't ever use party chat on Xbox and don't even know if they also record your conversations, but for those that DO use it, I think this is very invasive.
Edit - I see now it's not Sony doing the recording so not quite as creepy as I thought. Still, I'm glad I'm an antisocial gamer that doesn't do multiplayer or ever use voice chat as I prefer not to have ANYONE recording my conversations.
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reinking
Gold Member
The title says Sony records. The info says users record and send to Sony. I have a news flash. If you say or post something on most chat clients it can almost always be recorded. This is also only when you are in a group chat. It's not listening in to your house.
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Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
100% this.
There is nothing preventing players involved in a multiplayer game from recording the session including party chat. This has been a thing since xbox live circa 2002.
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
This is standard practice. Everything is recorded.
Heck, I say PS5 at or around my GF's phone at least twice a day so her FB picks it up and sends her targetted ads.
#PS5NotSecured
Heck, I say PS5 at or around my GF's phone at least twice a day so her FB picks it up and sends her targetted ads.
#PS5NotSecured
SaturnSaturn
Member
Your phone already records everything you say and do, even if you have turned off every permision for it, so who gives a shit, there is no such thing as privacy, just the illusion of it
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
ok. I read it. I feel dumb now.
LordOfChaos
Member
Remember all the concerned trolling over kinect privacy?
Sony got the camera and now openly admit to recording voice chats this gen?
Wtf man?!
Yeah I 'member concern trolling like it was still happening today
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This basically.
GrayFoxPL
Member
At least you reread it and got it.
MISTER INVEIGLER
Member
Nothing concern troll about it.
Yeah I 'member concern trolling like it was still happening today
Maybe they should have been more clear in the first place.
RyanEvans21
Member
Read it again. its already clear.
GrayFoxPL
Member
Yeah I 'member concern trolling like it was still happening today
They made an effort to explain it to all the morons?
LordOfChaos
Member
"By others". In what way is that not clear? Every time you're in a voice chat with anyone on any platform, there's the possibility that they may record it.
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Gold_Loot
Member
“By. Other. Users. “
I personally don’t see any issue here. Party chats are meant to be between friends. You shouldn’t be inviting random people and saying stupid shit that can get you in trouble legally regardless.
This feature can be helpful in capturing people trying to steal data , or even worse, praying on minors.
I personally don’t see any issue here. Party chats are meant to be between friends. You shouldn’t be inviting random people and saying stupid shit that can get you in trouble legally regardless.
This feature can be helpful in capturing people trying to steal data , or even worse, praying on minors.
Loxus
Member
So, by me going school and understanding English.Remember all the concerned trolling over kinect privacy?
Sony got the camera and now openly admit to recording voice chats this gen?
Wtf man?!
PlayStation is saying that other users participating in a voice chat,
can report me and send my voice them and see if I'm violating code of conduct and not PlayStation itself that is recoding voice.
I'm ok with that, as I don't harass other players.
I can see many people misunderstand though.
Not to mention the Xbox Camp, that's going to run with the idea that PlayStation is willfully doing it and spread major FUD.
Grinchy
Banned
If you are in a voice chat with even one other person, that person could record it. So they want you to agree to that.
You really think Sony is just waiting for people to enter a party with one other user so they can turn on the record feature and listen to the two of you drone on about which fast food restaurants you like and how many times you died to "lag?"
Pankratous
Member
Can't believe Sony has a PR battle on their hands because grown adults lack basic fucking reading comprehension. Insane.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
I demand a mini game for my feeble brain.
On a more serious note, isn't this the same with streaming stuff too? Do they issue warnings when streaming from a PS? Why bother with this change when there is likely other areas of the console with the same legal issues they're not updating terms/usability for?
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
They are also having you consent to be recorded. That's the part that people are bothered by.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Nothing.gif
People should be upset that you're now forced to create a party via group messages
Fucking stupid and they need to get rid of whoever thought that was a good idea
People should be upset that you're now forced to create a party via group messages
Fucking stupid and they need to get rid of whoever thought that was a good idea
it was clear from the beginning
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
You could always be recorded. They're just covering themselves legally
That's it. Big whoop
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Wizz-Art
Member
I heard a lot of options Microsoft would have with the Kinect back then. So why would I trust a foreign company outright? I never had a Kinect for the one though. It's not really what I believe, it's how it's worded. Once you use their voice chat function, it doesn't even say you have to talk to someone else, just use the function to begin with. You forfeit any privacy rights you have as you agree that your voice will be recorded.
