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New Xbox by NSA partner Microsoft will watch you 24/7
The Daily Caller ^ | June 7, 2013 | William Green

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.....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; impeachnow; internet; irs; microsoft; nsa; prism
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Try telling your kid he/she can't have one and why. Good luck.
1 posted on 06/08/2013 5:49:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

why, your family is run by your kids!?!


2 posted on 06/08/2013 5:50:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tagline updated based on latest Obama scandals.


3 posted on 06/08/2013 5:51:10 PM PDT by Perseverando (It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Some of us have grown kids, and it isn't an issue, except for the Constitutional issue.

/johnny

4 posted on 06/08/2013 5:51:50 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Secret Agent Man

No, but I seen it done, haven’t you?


5 posted on 06/08/2013 5:52:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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Wonder what Microsoft is going to do if they can't sell any of these XBOX NSA PRIZM SYSTEMS since most people will not be buying them because they know the NSA and the government will be spying on them ? sell them to the Russians ?
Gives a whole new meaning to the popular video game Splinter Cell.
6 posted on 06/08/2013 5:53:41 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Turn the kinnect camera around or throw a piece of electrical tape in front of the all seeing eye.


7 posted on 06/08/2013 5:55:35 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one talks about the fact that the energy star appliances are controlled by the Smart Meters either.


8 posted on 06/08/2013 5:57:01 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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That brings up the other thing.... hackers generally crack new hardware within a week of it hitting the shelves. Sometimes before that.

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

9 posted on 06/08/2013 5:57:38 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Put on your big boy pants and tell them its your money, your house, and your rules.


10 posted on 06/08/2013 5:59:25 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo ( Walker 2016)
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To: Sawdring
throw a piece of electrical tape in front of the all seeing eye.

Those cameras are IR, btw. You will need something IR opaque.

Not that I've read anything about hacking them, or anything....

/johnny

11 posted on 06/08/2013 5:59:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sawdring

It has a mic as well, BTW.


12 posted on 06/08/2013 6:00:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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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


13 posted on 06/08/2013 6:01:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In 0bama’s America, television watches you.


14 posted on 06/08/2013 6:01:55 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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What is ir oopaque? What material? Clay?


15 posted on 06/08/2013 6:02:45 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


16 posted on 06/08/2013 6:04:31 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: reg45

I have not seen outrage by the younger generation about this government overreach.

Anyone else see or hear responses from younger citizens?


17 posted on 06/08/2013 6:04:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Chickensoup
You have to dig for them. I was on alt.2600 way back in geologic time, and have tried to keep up.

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

18 posted on 06/08/2013 6:06:08 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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19 posted on 06/08/2013 6:07:35 PM PDT by Signalman
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Nazi Germany 1930s snitch device brought to the modern age of 2013 ?


20 posted on 06/08/2013 6:07:54 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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