| TheLivingShadow said: Hey everyone, So the news about the Xbox One policies have caused quite a fuss on the Internet huh? I myself am from a country where Internet is not reliable, sometimes for days, and I also tend to share a lot of games with my friends, so this is a really bad thing for me. However, as with all new generation consoles, I will wait until really great games come out to make a decision to buy it or not. However, this topic is about a potential for a big scandal in the future. The U.S. government grants immunity from lawsuit to certain telecommunications companies to basically spy on calls made using their services: http://www.naturalnews.com/040196_Fourth_Amendment_cyber_spying_ISPs.html I was thinking, what if the government kind of forced this same kind of deal with Microsoft about the Kinect? Since it can't be disconnected, you cannot be sure that it is not actually recording data. Sure, you can "turn it off", but how do you really know it's off? |
You don't understand what's going on.
The information being gathered by the NSA is essentially from what number and to what number a call is made or in the case of an online service, such as e-mail, Facebook, or Skype, from who and to whom a message is sent. That's only for communication made between a US citizen and a foreign citizen.
To take things the next step, which would be to actually access the content of the communication, they would need a court order.
Kinect can't be used for espionage. However, if you used your Xbox One to communicate with someone within the US via Skype (for instance), and you're a known terrorist, then yes the US government will be able to subpeona Microsoft for access to whatever form of communication you had via Skype.
Are you a "known" terrorist?
