| 1337 Gamer said: wow people get way too worked up about this. this data is transfered anonymously. They dont send out your personal ID or anything. Stop making a big deal about it |
On the contrary, that is exactly what they do. Where did you get the idea this was anonymous? If you have ever purchased anything, they know who you are, and they do connect this information with the data they mine (eg, which movies you watched on your ps3, who you chatted with, and which websites you visited. They even store your IP and MAC, and reserve the right to listen to your conversations (text and voice) and store them.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
