People are actually scared that Sony is spying on it's consumers?

What would be the purpose? Why would Sony want to look at peoples dead houses during the day when everyone is gone?

I don't get it. Sony is always getting attacked for something.

Someone had posted an article in the Off-Topic Discussion about a recent report that a school had given laptops to their students and the laptops have webcams, and so one webcam was set-off (remotely) and recorded a student 'playing' in his/her bedroom, so the student's family filed a lawsuit after the school complained about the student.

Being on topic, I doubt this will happen with the EyeToy. The EyeToy has been out a little bit since the PS3 was released, right? If so, then why didn't anyone report the misuse of the device?

Also with the rootkits, I KNOW what you mean. I have a Switchfoot CD, "Nothing Is Sound," and it's produced by Sony Music Records, and when I first put it into my desktop, it asked to install software for the CD to be ripped; my virus scan was activated and a trojan was flagged from the CD. Sadly (and I don't think it's possible, so correct me if I'm wrong), I don't think you can actually remove a trojan from disc-based media...

Ohh no !

Yup. Sony is going to use their camera to spy on people playing the PS3.

And what exactly would they accomplish by doing that? Besides being evil? I think you still haven't answered that.

Why are you, like so many here assuming that I meant Sony to abuse this? I am not saying Sony will. I am saying that someone might.

Prove me wrong and I am absolutely content.

Can you prove no one can abuse the technology? Guess not. So can noone else, but I guess I am just paranoid as everyone here claims.

I said it before and I say it again. If you would follow the hacking efforts on the PS3. You would know that its still impossible to run own programs in the PS3 Game OS.

You are overdramatizing. Its as much a threat as a camera in your mobile phone. Even less because noone can control a PS3 this much to make it send data to another pc (except the owner or Sony) 

You should worry more about natal your mobile the standard vga cam implemented in notebooks.  A tracking program on your notebook csan find out way more interesting things then a 24/7 stream of your living room. What exactly do you think would be the motivation for a hacker/company to spy on you in your living room. Or do you think the government wants to store terabytes of data per capita to see in 99.9999% cases nothing interesting (maybe 1 in 100000 people will actually do something interesting like cooking drugs infront of the TV.

Could you please describe a realistic scenario of someone watching people in their living room. Or do you think that our governments are nazi like regimes which just pretend to be liberal/democratic ? what exactly should be the threat. I cant understand your concerns at all.

 BTW eyetoy is 8 years old and  millions of people out there have already a webcam or an eyetoy connected to the PS3 also hundreds of millions of people have a webcam on/in their pc. BILLIONS of people have a mobile with a camera. Nothing will change. Absolutely nothing. The amount of cameras connected with internet devices is so extremly high, what should particulary change with the PS3 move. Your worries are atleast a decaded to late. everything is already here for total surveillance. The thing is. our laws work and why monitor people if they already do what they should do ? (Work/shop/spread and not fight against authoritys, its all you can do anyway). 

Companies are just interested in shopping behaviour and you cant find out things like that with the Playstation move. Aslong as you dont have power/money or are terrorist you are completly uninteresting.

In the wiimote is a microphone isnt it ? Couldnt someone record everything what happens, in you living room and send the data through the internet to a hacker or nintendo ? Maybe thats the real threat Nintendo stores everything what happens around a wiimote in a huge serverfarm and searches the audiologs after certain keywords. And so they are able to improve their strategy on the market. Thats why they are so succesful.

Would probably be easier to reproduce for a hacker then the whole surveillance through PS3 move. Also natal surveillance would be easier. PS3 is not properly hacked they are still nowhere. 

You should stop watching the news. The world is not that bad.

I disagree, some paranoid people out there, so with all the labtops out there with built in webcam, and all web cams on PCs, and everything else, they must all be spying on us, Simple plug it in while your playing, then unplug when your done, its a simple USB connection, problem solved