Kinect IS Spying on You (wow)

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Legend11 said:

bmmb1 said:

Legend11 said:

This is to help law enforcement in catching pedophiles, retrieving stolen consoles, retrieving communications for missing people, etc.  I support it since it means protecting people and possibly even saving lives.

So I guess you support the police placing a mandatory camera (and maybe a mandatory listening device) in every home? I mean, in addition to catching pedophiles, that will be used to prevent even worse things than retrieiving stolen consoles - it will prevent crimes from being perpetrated or at least catch the perpetrators, prevent abusive parents mistreating their children, prevent rapes, prevent or help solve murders, help prevent the planning and execution of terrorist attacks, and the list is long.

Sony has been doing this for over 2 years (see link) and it doesn't look like PS3 owners have been adversely affected so I don't get why it's suddenly a problem now.  Nintendo also will release your online communications to law enforcement if needed.

http://gizmodo.com/5066501/new-playstation-3-terms-of-service-sony-can-record-anything-you-say-or-do-online

I didn't know that about Sony (I own neither PS3 nor XB360) - does the PS eye have an online connection as well though? This is not about what I do online (even ISPs probably have some terms about online communications), this is about placing a device in my home that can track what I am doing in my house. Do i think MS as a company will misuse this (except for perhaps tracking pirates)? Not really. But I can see some MS employees doing it as a private initiative  (I can see lots of uses - Paparazzi buying their way into the homes of celebs, private detectives, law enforcemnet agencies of course, thieves planning on robbing a house). All that of course if I correctly understood what can be done with Kinect...