does this make me a bad person or a fan boy? or just paranoid

[Bruxel]

ChadOkada said:

Bruxel said:

To sum it up, I do not like the business plan of the xbox one.. i dont like having an ID account tracked by the cloud along with face reconiztion and having a camera always on watching me/listening and may charge me for used games, having more people over watching a movie and being hit by little fees here and there. I am sure the xbox one will be a great console for gaming but the fundementals of it is somthing i dont want to see gaming evolve into i think its a sort of thing best left out of the gaming industry and focus just on games itself not a cable box or obtaining all of your identity..

 

The 3DS, Wii U and Vita all  have forward facing cameras, microphones and ID accounts.  After all of the talk this week about Microsofts new Kinnect and what it could do I am worried about these devices also.  Several posts on Joystiq, Neogaf, etc. mention RAT (Remote Administration Tool) where men spy on woman through their webcams.

Ars Technica has the article if you want to read it  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/    it makes me never want to use any modern game system again.

yes those consoles have cameras too, but they were not built with patents in order to use methods to fee/be always on and "spy" on the consumer. At any time if i was paranoid enough i can put a piece of tape over it and it wont say "camera obstruction detected please clear the item out of the way" so to say the xbox is probably not a spybox but it has many patents already in place that could be used to fee the consumer and advertise a hefty amount. I just feel the xbox1 was built for the corporate vision in mind and not the average player, being a big corporation is fine but not when they go to far with it.