No kidding. All this bullshit for a few dance games.
I blame Sony. They started this crap with the eyetoy<_<
No kidding. All this bullshit for a few dance games.
I care less about "potentially" and more about "likely". Is it likely that the NSA would take any interest in me if they saw me through the Kinect camera? Nope. I don't think they would use the camera anyway because all they'd see is people's living rooms and bedrooms.
I love how they basically admit it's possible to spy through kinect
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I guess I'm just naive when it comes to this stuff.
I have to strongly disagree with you here. Perhaps to you it is not a big deal but to claim that's its not something most people should be worried about is your opinion. I'd argue most people that are cognizant of what the technology is capable of DO care. We live in a country founded on freedom. These freedoms that are outlined in the Constitution are being blatantly violated by corporations such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
It's definitely something most people should be very concerned about.
Yeah, but now Microsoft can watch people dance...that has to be worth something, right?No kidding. All this bullshit for a few dance games.
We were founded on a constitution that can't be applied to the way the world is today. Social media, technology, and the internet has completely changed the way everything is looked at. The NSA leak has caused a mass paranoia that the government is everywhere at all times which it is not. If it were, the Boston Marathon tragedy would not have occurred.
There is a 20 billion dollar class action law suit against these 9 companies to stop this from happening again. http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram...ght-against-complicit-companies-and-officials
Also I wish them good luck. Yet with the news that even Supreme Court Judges are getting bribed by the Government (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread956307/pg1) can we really count on this lawsuit to do any good?
This just proves that the Government & the Supreme Court are being ran by absolute morons.
While I agree the U.S. government is, broadly speaking, run by idiots, I wouldn't trust anything from abovetopsecret.com without independent verification. That site is all about impossible conspiracies and secret alien visitations and such nonsense.
Yeah, they only locked down an entire city for a few days to catch them. I wonder how easy it was for people to get approval for wide-scale surveillance measures during that time of crisis.The NSA leak has caused a mass paranoia that the government is everywhere at all times which it is not. If it were, the Boston Marathon tragedy would not have occurred.
all of which are now validated now that one of the hugest, and longest prevalent conspiracies has come to be true.
Yeah, the only locked down an entire city for a few days to catch them. I wonder how easy it was for people to get approval for wide-scale surveillance measures during that time.
The worry is overreach.
The worry is casting too wide a net when it comes to surveillance.
The worry is bad apples and abuse of power and not even knowing your privacy in violated, much less having any avenue for redress.
There's a reason our system is based upon the principles of checks and balances, and it doesn't derive from trust for institutions, whether public or private.
And whether Microsoft is against any possible NSA taps or not doesn't really matter. They've hitched their wagons on this super camera becoming ubiquitous in the modern living room, starting with gaming and moving into more mainstream entertainment of all kinds.
And their past actions are catching up with them.
Just because one conspiracy proved true doesn't mean all of them are.
This is getting to the point where I'm wondering if they can really even use most of this data.
Okay, let's spy on hundreds of millions of people; intercept billions of e-mail; spy on millions of conversations; etc. Yes, they can surely store the data, but when you have Terabytes upon Terabytes of information, how much can you realistically sift through?
Along with better personal privacy and security measures for phones and webcams.Exactly oversight, oversight, oversight
Personally think there should be a civilian oversight committee for programs like this
That's a pretty big compliment for Microsoft, seeing that they got on board with PRISM pretty quickly!Yeah... they'll "aggressively challenge" any attempt, but they'll comply with the (terrible) law in the end.
Exactly oversight, oversight, oversight
Personally think there should be a civilian oversight committee for programs like this
(well to be honest Prism should be scrapped but not going to happen)
Not politicians but actual civilians to weigh in on the balance of privacy and security cause the government has no idea how much we value privacy
Of course we will. X1 will be a nice challenge for hackers to tear down and find out what's it really sending out. Then they'll disable the Kinect and spoof online requirements for "dah clowd" games, probably release custom firmware. If there are any secrets and limitations, there always people who want to get through them.Of course we will never know either way.
Of course we will. X1 will be a nice challenge for hackers to tear down and find out what's it really sending out. Then they'll disable the Kinect and spoof online requirements for "dah clowd" games, probably release custom firmware. If there are any secrets and limitations, there always people who want to get through them.
Yeah, right, MS. Just like with Skype? I'm not falling for that bull.
That's a pretty big compliment for Microsoft, seeing that they got on board with PRISM pretty quickly!
The people who posted the TSA scans were civilians. The soldier who brains the kitten that hangs out at the FOB is at a no different level. The teacher who decides to just hand a packet out and leave the students to their own devices is a civilian capable of impacting the future of all of those students by that choice.
People are always the problem, and it doesn't matter whether you're some designated official or employee 001. By the way, how would that committee be formed? How could it be prevented from being another slave to the system as we see with lobbying between the Hill and Wall Street?
PRISM itself isn't an issue of itself, and just targeting it or the larger than life "government" is a bit of a cop out. It's the people and the intentions they may or may not have that is the concern, and of course it's one hell of an issue to tackle in how to mitigate the damage any individual can cause to one or billions.
When the only way you can defend this is a variation on "Oh Look! Other companies can do it, you have other devices that can do it too" you are losing the argument, badly.
Oh, and the "Quit Picking On MS" is pathetic at this point too. This is a very legit concern.
Also, the phone argument is moot (well, at least for Android), aside from not having a preferred view all the time like the Kinect, Android has open source options for most phone models. Would be damn obvious if there is a backdoor in the android code, can't say the same for walled gardens like IOS and X180. Also for reference, google apps are not open source, but they do run on an open source platform.
I have nothing to hide. If you also have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.
No, I'm 32. I used to be in the military where you have no privacy whatsoever. It wasn't a big deal. I don't have an irrational fear of people spying on me. If I did, I wouldn't be online and I wouldn't have a cell phone. There are probably going to be 30+ million people using the Xbox One at some point. The government couldn't watch everyone 24/7 if they wanted to. I'd be more worried about Sony's data security than the Kinect spying on me.
What is the difference between Kinect and Skype Microsoft?
You people are so melodramatic.
BRB gonna tape over my cellphone camera just in case the government wants to listen in to my pocket rumblings
Instead of pretending to be some freedom fighter MS should embrace the strengths of Kinect and promote its safety apects. Such as: Kinect can through the heart rate monitoring detect if an old person gets a heart attack while playing "Just dance" or while having sex, then call 911 and via Skype provide a live feed of the dying person to a doctor, while the ambulance is getting there. Everything accompanied with some tailored ads.
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You mean a life insurance ad?A lifealert ad perhaps?
You mean a life insurance ad?
Nope meant this
Because it's not until Kinect 3.0 that kinect can see through walls and alert the police of your activities/accidents that take place outside of the living room![]()