Kinect IS watching you.

[Fuselage]

Hello, friends! Let me welcome you all to 1984! Yes, I know, the bus arrived a little late and our tour guide George Orwell is good and dead, but now we're here at last and Big Brother Microsoft is watching us, just like it said in the brochure.

A ""Little" Late? We are 26 years late, I have the right mind to phone the bus company now.

Seriously though that is the scariest thing I have ever heard right next to Micheal Atkinson isn't dead yet, imagine: Sitting in your room alone watching TV and the Kinect can see all you do....ALL OF IT

 

[RatRace123]

Creepy, though I'm pretty sure the majority of people they spy on aren't going to provide any sort of useful data, unless they want to know exactly how each individual flails their arms like an idiot.

 

[Clarity112]

kinect = telescreen. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[Sun Flash]

I have nothing to hide.

But then I also don't have the money to splash out on Kinect, thanks to Fable, Fallout, the new CoD and Assassins Creed coming out.

Even if I ever do get it, Microsoft are only going to have a 24 hour live stream of my Doctor Who Posters most of the time interspersed with me shouting to my mum if she's seen my shoes.

Whoever this Big Brother is, he's going to be majorly dissapointed when he sees how boring we all are.

 

[Gaz6231]

Maybe the key here is to, I dunno, not buy the fucking thing.

 

[Ashsaver]

This almost sounded like something that only happens in Soviet Russia,I guess Microsoft have other agenda,you know,beside making a quick buck out of anything Halo.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

This would reduce the impact of Psycho Mantis-esq encounters. Imagine in a future Halo, fighting a Prophet and hearing a phrase like,

"So, you like Viva Pinata?" or, "HA! Fool, anybody could have unlocked all of the achievements in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!"

those examples are of old games but you get where I'm going with this.

That... would actually be pretty cool.

 

[Reaper195]

Well...they'll find me wanking to play with a tiger interesting....pervs.

 

[gabe12301]

So there going to record my spastic flails now? NOOOOOOO

 

[ImprovizoR]

As if we needed more reasons not to buy it.

 

[Meggiepants]

I would never leave the peripheral plugged in when I wasn't using it, even if no stories like this existed. I don't leave cameras hooked up to the network on inside my house. Which is why when my eyecam would be plugged in, I'd also be off the network.

Call me paranoid if you will, but it doesn't hurt me any to do this and it really isn't a hassle either.

 

[DustyDrB]

So Microsoft wants to watch me play games and then quit, go for my dog and say "Aww you're such a cute little numminlicker (I don't even know what that means) and I'mmaa getcha!"
There's gonna be a lot of that.

...my dog just walked in. Awww..

 

[obliviondoll]

I can say with 100% certainty that at this moment, Kinect is not watching ME.

I don't own a 360, and am currently very happy with my PS3.

My flatmate has Eyepet, which uses the PSEye camera, but even when the camera is left plugged in, it's sat in a position where it can't see anything. And the mic is disabled most of the time because I use a headset and the PS3 only uses one sound input at a time.

So I should be relatively safe from Sony too.

Only problem now is using my flatmate's Macbook with built in webcam.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Besides, I don't think anybody truly concerned with privacy issues would be a Facebook user. Yet I'm willing to bet that most people who use this site are.

One can be a facebook user and still be concerned with privacy. The trick is to never post anything on facebook that they want to be a secret from anyone ever.

I thought that was obvious with the whole "it's on the internet thing".