Because the Kinect has a much better camera and microphone that will be set up to perfectly record the busiest room in your home?
Because its not just about the potential for future government abuse of the data being collected, but its also about Microsoft's already stated intent to abuse the feature in order to profit off information they garner from your home, as well as the potential for someone malicious to crack unified hardware and software like this that will be so similar across so many homes.
There's literally no plus to this whole always on kinect thing, why would anyone want to defend it? You tell me this: Who owns the video and sound recordings of what is going on in MY HOME when that data is saved to Microsoft's servers? Who gets to profit off reselling that information? Do I? No? Then there's another reason to be concerned with this.
Some of us aren't comfortable giving a corporation with a shitty track record like Microsoft, and governments who've already been shown to abuse that trust repeatedly, that much access to our homes and lives. There's nothing paranoid about it.
The point? People need to at least be INFORMED that these types of possibilities are inherent in purchasing an Xbox 1 BEFORE they purchase it and agree to all the stupid things they'll AUTOMATICALLY AGREE TO so they can play their brand new, $500 dollar console when they open it up and plug it in.
Yup. Millions of people out there with Windows laptops with cameras but the Kinect is the issue ....
Except laptop cameras aren't....
1. Usually in an optimal place in a main room of the house to record everything going on there
2. Can be turned off and removed and the laptop will still work
3. Don't have near the resolution or broad picture scope
4. Have inferior microphones
Of course part of why they made Kinect mandatory was because it wouldn't sell otherwise. It wouldn't sell otherwise and they need it to sell, because they want to use it to target advertising and monetize that segment of the market for their own coffers. None of this, of course, is a good thing, and we shouldn't be knowingly supporting it.
Gaige lols at conspiracy theorists. What conspiracy? Microsoft has been quoted directly, by me, in this thread, stating that their intention is to use Kinect to collect data for advertising, and your only option in the matter is whether your data is "anonimized" or not. No conspiracy necessary. Try reading a little better next time.
I just want my console to be a console, i dont want it listening, or talking to me or telling me what kind of coffee and condoms would best go with my mood for the day. I want my console to turn on play games and shut the fuck up, while hearing nothing.
Exactly.
There are 15,000 federal crimes on the book, plus. No one knows how many. You could and very probably are in violation of one of them right this second, without even knowing it. So your argument is bad, and is a dysphemistic attempt to slander people you don't agree with by comparing them to criminals.
