Posted on 06/08/2013 5:49:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Possible privacy violations by Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One have come under new scrutiny since it was revealed Thursday that the tech giant was a crucial partner in an expansive Internet surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency and involving Silicon Valley’s biggest players.
One of the console’s key features is the full integration of the Kinect, a motion sensing camera that allows users to play games, scroll through menus, and generally operate the Xbox just using hand gestures. Microsoft has touted the camera as the hallmark of a new era of interactivity in gaming.
What Microsoft has not promoted, however, is the fact that you will not be able to power on the console without first enabling the Kinect, designed to detect both heartbeats and eye movement. and positioning yourself in front of it.
Disturbingly, a recently published Microsoft patent reveals the Kinect has the capability to determine exactly when users are viewing ads broadcast by the Xbox through its eye movement tracking. Consistent ad viewers would be granted rewards, according to the patent.
Perhaps the feature most worryisome to privacy advocates is the requirement that the Xbox connect to the Internet at least once every 24 hours.....
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why, your family is run by your kids!?!
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/johnny
No, but I seen it done, haven’t you?
Turn the kinnect camera around or throw a piece of electrical tape in front of the all seeing eye.
No one talks about the fact that the energy star appliances are controlled by the Smart Meters either.
A few weeks later, scripts and how-tos are available for idiots to hack (or brick) their new hardware.
I have a feeling those pesky kids are going to ruin the evil plans of the oligarchy.
/johnny
Put on your big boy pants and tell them its your money, your house, and your rules.
Those cameras are IR, btw. You will need something IR opaque.
Not that I've read anything about hacking them, or anything....
/johnny
It has a mic as well, BTW.
I keep hearing that johnny but I don’t see it. Where are the overlays or scrips for smart meters, the new cars, for cameras. I don’t think they are out there. I don’t think they are being developed
In 0bama’s America, television watches you.
What is ir oopaque? What material? Clay?
At this point I pretty much figure the government knows everything about me anyway. The foolish person is the one who thinks they are anonymous.
I have not seen outrage by the younger generation about this government overreach.
Anyone else see or hear responses from younger citizens?
Search Google for hacking X-box Kinect and get videos or instructions of how to do it.
Same with smart meters. People have been burning replacement ROMS for car computers since cars had computers. That, I know something about, having earned a few beers doing that.
/johnny
Nazi Germany 1930s snitch device brought to the modern age of 2013 ?
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