Kinect: Microsoft pledges to “aggressively challenge” government spying

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sales2099 said:

We see news on this because there are still people like you who spew your now baseless ideas to gullible potential buyers.

360 Kinect is untouched in terms of privacy violations. That right there is a good base to say that you are playing out a worst case scenerio.......just because.

I can't stress this enough, you can be plugged in and still be off. This is confirmed.

I think we're done here.

Tell me, how is what you're doing any different from an Athiest telling a Catholic that his religious views are baseless, and wrong?

It isn't, and even in the link you provided, it specificalls says "The spying concern wasn't groundless."

Now you might want to make up all the excusses you want, you might want to say that I, and people like me live in a bubble (This is not an insult? My opinion differs from yours so I live in a bubble?), but the thing is Microsoft has already sold their console to you, not me.

Maybe to you, the scenario I'm presenting is a "worse case scenario", but it's still a needless scenario. If consumers like myself do not feel safe with a Kinect sensor, we should be allowed to play games without it, but we can't. As much as you think Kinect can be turned off when you game, it can't. It physically needs to be plugged in, and "paused." Paused is not off, if it were, off would be called paused.

Microsoft has given away our information before, and it's only rational to assume they will do it again. For that simple reason, I should be able to play the One console and limit how much information I want to give to microsoft. Physically unplugging a product which I have no intention of using, is not asking too much. The fact that Microsoft doesn't even provide this option to the "overly paranoid" individuals like myself, is clear cause for concern. If there wasn't any reason why we can't unplug the sensor, then it would be an option.

Our information is being stored, simple as that. The question is, will information like out heart rate, and number of illegal immigrants be given away?

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the reason why you still see news and thread about stuff like this is because there is still a large percentage of gamers who just aren't convinced. Parading in threads, insulting people, and trying to force your opinion won't change anything.

sales2099 said:

Im not insulting you per-se, just saying that your concerns are pretty much baseless at this point and you are just feeding into your own fears.

A radio can be turned off when the car is on....you merely have to push a button to activate it and can cease it just as easily.

Focus on things you know are security risks like your phone, and don't worry about thigns that are not only not out yet, but have a track record of being untouched by government demands (referring to 360/kinect 1.0)

If I have a fear of my information being exposed, then I have a fear of this, and I should have an option to eliminate that fear. If car radios made me paranoid, I could physically remove one, lol.

Yea, a car radio can be turned off, when the car is on, but Kinect can't be turned off when One is on. Do you get what I'm saying? There is no separate off button for the Kinect, only pause.

This is why Kinect 2 is still an issue. this would be like pressing pause on a cd playing in your car. The CD player is still on, still reading the disk, still functioning. Just not playing. Kinect still reads your room when it's paused, doesn't it charge you by the viewer when you're watching a movie on netflicks?

My phone and internet are only security risks now because I own one. If I owned and XBOne, I would have to add right to the top of my list of potential privacy invaders. So I'll focus on this, by not getting a One, and eliminate that worry.

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you can tell me I'm wrong all you like, but until Microsoft fixes my issue (not your issue, MY issue), then they won't have my sale, and in the end, they are trying desperatly to get the attention of gamers like me, not you.