| Figgycal said: I know that the belief here is that only people who weren't planning on buying an xbox anyways are hating on kinect, but the truth is that there are tons of people who are scared or angered by the idea of the NSA, Prism, always listening, collecting personal data, advertising, etc (tell anyone of those words to a mass audience and they would be instantly turned off). Maybe it is them being unreasonable, but it's definitely not just ps4 fanboys. There's a much bigger issue here than just hate for the sake of hate. |
The Xbox guys can spin it away and try to call everyone who has serious issues with this -- as paranoid or crazy. Simply put, the technology is in place and exists to spy on you and with Kinect it just gets a whole lot easier. There is a whole host of privacy concerns (ISPs, Telephone, Cell phone calls, text messages, emails, etc) The worst privacy concern of all is an object sitting inside your home.
As I said,
Any of the skeptics go ahead and take a gander. There is legitimate concern with having this device in your living room if you value your privacy somewhat. Especially since Microsoft will fall in line with anything the government wants and has already proven as much.
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/6/10/inside_the_nsas_domestic_surveillance_apparatus_whistleblower_william_binney_speaks_out
This type of stuff is/has been going on and people just want to remain oblivious to it. Perhaps my favorite part of the video is :
AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of the FBI, in 2008, actor Shia LaBeouf appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During the interview, he talked about an FBI agent showing him a recorded conversation from two years prior to meeting him.
SHIA LABEOUF: I remember we had an FBI consultant on the picture telling me that they can use your ADT security box microphone to get your stuff that’s going on in your house, or OnStar, they could shut your car down. And he told me that one in five phone calls that you make are recorded and logged. And I laughed at him. And then he played back a phone conversation I had had two years prior—
JAY LENO: Come on.
SHIA LABEOUF: —to joining the picture. The FBI consultant. And it was like one of those—it was one of those phone calls—it was like, you know, "What are you wearing?" type of things.
JAY LENO: Really?
SHIA LABEOUF: Yeah, so it was—it was mad weird, but—
JAY LENO: Can we—no, wait. So you mean they had a record of you from—
SHIA LABEOUF: Two years prior to me joining the picture.
JAY LENO: —even being associated with the movie?
SHIA LABEOUF: With the movie.
JAY LENO: Well, that seems creepy.
SHIA LABEOUF: It’s extremely creepy.
