Yes because nobody will ever read the EULA and countries will be completely kosher with MS collecting data as a mandatory part of the console, right? You guys are trying too hard. It's out in just over 6 weeks, more leaks and review consoles will be out shortly and we'll see exactly how this is handled soon enough. "because NSA!" is not a rabbit hole I'm going down.
They're already doing it and countries aren't doing anything about it. They've been doing it for a decade with the NSA and PRISM spying scandal and here we are with people like you pretending it doesn't exist, doesn't happen, or someone would surely be outraged if it was. Well, it is, and we are outraged, but you're ignoring that and pretending we're "Trying too hard." Trying to hard to what? Discern truth from fiction in Microsoft's contradictory horseshit statements and attempts to close the barn door after the cows have all run off? If they'd give us a straight answer without constantly couching it in qualifications and contradictions, it would require a lot less effort to figure out exactly where they stand on this issue. With the run around they're giving us, I'm leaning more towards the "We really want to do this but don't know how to sell it to the public in a way that they'll find palatable" end of the spectrum than the "We're a major corporation with NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in monetizing your living room and as much of your life as possible" end of things.
Note how they never seem to say that they won't be collecting data, just that they won't be using it without your permission. Or that they're "unaware of anything currently in the works" when they've already admitted flat out it can read heartbeats, and does in fact record data and return it to Microsoft in one form or another.
Here's a quote for you to ruminate on for awhile
Microsoft: No, Xbox Onet be used to gather user data for ads - Neowin
The comments in Ad Age attributed to Yusuf Mehdi were not in relation to Kinect. We do not have plans to target ads or content to you based on any data Kinect collects. We have a long-standing commitment to your privacy andwill not target ads to you based on any data Kinect collects unless you choose to allow us to do so. Furthermore, we will give you a clear explanation of what is collected and how it will be used. Importantly, we do not collect your personal information to share or sell to third parties, and you are fully in control over what personal data is shared. We have strict policies to protect your privacy and these policies will continue to be upheld with our next generation product.
So again, they're contradicting themselves. Either they're not working on it, and collecting data and sending ads isn't possible and they have no plans to engage in it, or they are and have been working on it, are capable of doing so, but they won't use it to collect data or send you ads without your prior permission. Which is it? When they contradict themselves this much, we have a right to be worried. Note that in that quoted paragraph, they flat out admit that the Kinect is collecting data or will collect data. They just won't say the extent or what is being recorded or how they plan to use it, except to say they won't do so, without your permission.
Literally you can't trust anything they say on this issue, and the NSA stuff should be a rabbit hole you're willing to go down because its a pretty big deal to put a fucking camera and microphone in your living room that records literally every single detail down to the millimeter that it sees, and sends it off to some server in fucking Redwood or what the fuck ever to sit on a platter until someone comes along and subpoenas that data to use as a weapon against you. Simply because you played video games on their retarded fucking console.
I would rather people be aware of the possibility that this data will be recorded and stored for Microsoft and the Government's use before dropping 5 bones on the system. That's it. Buyers should be aware of what they are potentially purchasing in this type of survellience environment. How long will be it, seriously, if people aren't upset and aren't making a big deal out of this, before we start hearing about drug busts being conducted based on data the Feds subpoenaed from your Xbox One Kinect? If the data is being collected and stored, it will be targetted. Just like Facebook, Twitter, World of Warcraft, etc. have all been usurped to such ends in the past. Including Xbox live.
That's why we're making a big deal about this. People need to know that Microsoft is looking, very hard, at a way to turn your living room into a weapon by which they sell you shit and by which malicious third parties could harm your family.
Hell let's think about the potential for someone discovering an exploit that allows them to monitor homes through the internet via the Xbox One Kinect camera and microphone as well, here. This isn't paranoia. Its a fucking major issue that will prevent me from purchasing this product, that's a fact.
