Dailycaller: New Xbox by NSA partner Microsoft will watch you 24/7

[chrisj1968]

Nope. I don't seem to do anything of the sort. I DO think that this article is hugely uninformed. If the writer believes that every Kinekt is always recording and sending that back to MS, then they are bloody idiots.

**** off! This is an article designed to provoke a response that will clearly involve politics!

Grow up! Take some damned responsibility for bringing this tripe here!

nice spin mate. You take the focus off the OP by injecting ludicrous conjecture without even showing any proof. Show evidence or your words are worthless.

until you can refute the article, you sir have no stance or grounds to stand on. I challenge you to tell them that their work is tripe.

[chrisj1968]

Forbes Magazine even tackles the issue of Xboxone

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/06/07/nsa-domestic-spying-program-makes-xbox-one-even-scarier/

Now that the NSA has apparently unlimited access to Microsoft servers, the notion of a camera in our homes watching us at all times and storing biometric data on Microsoft servers is downright appalling.

[StephenBratz]

nice spin mate. You take the focus off the OP by injecting ludicrous conjecture without even showing any proof. Show evidence or your words are worthless.

until you can refute the article, you sir have no stance or grounds to stand on. I challenge you to tell them that their work is tripe.

Wow, that takes balls. Claim that the OP is being attacked for injecting "ludicrous conjecture without even showing any proof" for laughing at someone who believes that the NSA will have a direct tap into your living room. As I wrote in another thread, do you have an iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook, Chromebook (oh, wait, nobody owns one of those), cell phone, Android device, web cam, land line phone? Every single one of those devices have web cams, microphones, GPS, etc. Each of those can be used to record your picture, your voice, your movement. Apple has said that they record and keep what you say and store it for months, even years. Apple has said that they keep your movements and send that data to them. Google keeps track of your movements. Google keeps track of everything you search for. Google keeps track of what you buy and sends people who writes apps your personal info. But that is OK, because they do not have the name Microsoft, even though Google/Apple/etc. is subject to the same court orders as Microsoft.

And I need to bring it up again, but you have written about how you believe that Microsoft is funneling money to Bill Gates, who then uses that money to fund his campaign to kill children who have a different skin color. I am sorry, but you are waging a campaign to frighten people away from Microsoft to companies who do the same exact thing that you are fighting against in Microsoft.

[chrisj1968]

Wow, that takes balls. Claim that the OP is being attacked for injecting "ludicrous conjecture without even showing any proof" for laughing at someone who believes that the NSA will have a direct tap into your living room. As I wrote in another thread, do you have an iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook, Chromebook (oh, wait, nobody owns one of those), cell phone, Android device, web cam, land line phone? Every single one of those devices have web cams, microphones, GPS, etc. Each of those can be used to record your picture, your voice, your movement. Apple has said that they record and keep what you say and store it for months, even years. Apple has said that they keep your movements and send that data to them. Google keeps track of your movements. Google keeps track of everything you search for. Google keeps track of what you buy and sends people who writes apps your personal info. But that is OK, because they do not have the name Microsoft, even though Google/Apple/etc. is subject to the same court orders as Microsoft.

And I need to bring it up again, but you have written about how you believe that Microsoft is funneling money to Bill Gates, who then uses that money to fund his campaign to kill children who have a different skin color. I am sorry, but you are waging a campaign to frighten people away from Microsoft to companies who do the same exact thing that you are fighting against in Microsoft.

ad to this from the forbes article

When the FAA was first enacted, defenders of the statute argued that a significant check on abuse would be the NSA's inability to obtain electronic communications without the consent of the telecom and internet companies that control the data. But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers.

So.. we have laws that state on face value, the government has to get permission by law to request the info while.... on the backside, the NSA PRISM program allows the NSA to brute force take what it wants. the powerpoint presentation which was authenticated shows Microsoft has been open to NSA snooping since 2007. Is it really that difficult to see what the inherent dangers are?

1+1 = 2 so.. opportunity to abuse the peoples privacy..Check! medium to use to spy more directly.. check! NSA being caught taking peoples data..check!

a little further down in the article..

The Prism program allows the NSA, the world's largest surveillance organisation, to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders.

[yardmanflex]

http://dailycaller.c...l-watch-you-247

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. Many critics have asserted that Microsoft will follow the lead of other Silicon Valley companies and use their console to gather data about its users, particularly through the Kinect, and collect it through the online connection users can?t avoid.

Microsoft has promised that customers will be able to ?pause? the camera?s function, but have put off questions on the precise specifics of their privacy policies.

Nice try..but big fail....

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

You ask me to prove something that simply doesn't exist? WTF. You really have no idea how arguing works.

You claim 1+1=2... The article is based upon 1+x = y. x being an unprovable claim and y beying the conjecture of a biased source.

Please stop peddling this crap. Oh and for the sake of this thread, you are the OP, take responsibility for posting this tripe!

[Torolol]

simple solution: you are not to buy the xbox one.

Saving both your money & privacy.