Will the NSA spying on video gamers affect your buying choices.
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Not overly concerned about being spied on by the NSA, or anyone for that matter. I wont be using the Kinect for XBO when I get it, and I don't use it for 360/PS3/PS4.
If they WANT to find out what your doing, I imagine it will not be that hard for them to figure it out
If they WANT to find out what your doing, I imagine it will not be that hard for them to figure it out
Um yea... that's never going to happen. A brief glance at our nation's political environment should be enough to tell you that.J Tyran said:
The world is too interconnected for a large scale war to ever occur. The world's economy is becoming more and more globalized every day. There is simply no benefit to be gained from a world war these days.J Tyran said:
Forgive my lack of cynicism but I believe that people are fundamentally good for the most part. All this doom and gloom about spying seems ridiculously over the top. What are they seriously going to do with your gaming history? Torture you and lock you up for playing too many foreign games? Don't make me laugh.
Not really, no. This is probably the LEAST invasive thing they could have done, and in a weird way it makes sense for someone responsible for predicting threat vectors to be concerned about it (terrorist networks using MMOs as a communication platform), especially if you aren't familiar with how online gaming works. I can see the "just in case" mentality behind it.
It actually reminds me of that thing where they jotted up the likelihood of an extra-terrestrial attack and set up a number of guidelines for emergency management, just in case they ever needed it. Can't remember where I saw that story now, though.
It actually reminds me of that thing where they jotted up the likelihood of an extra-terrestrial attack and set up a number of guidelines for emergency management, just in case they ever needed it. Can't remember where I saw that story now, though.
Not necessarily...I haven't used Xbox Live in years and I don't plan on getting an Xbox One because of the Kinect. I plan on getting the PS4 and using PSN at some point but I guess the only thing I'll have to do is refrain from using any off color jokes about terrorism.
Don't those incidents prove the NSA is useless. Even protocol for stopping terrorist from boarding planes is useless. In Metro Detroit a Terrorist had a bomb strapped to his underwear. He got on the airplane with a one way ticket, paid in cash, no luggage, I think the father of the terrorist even gave warning to a embassy, and Britain refused to renew his visa a couple months before the incident. I've never been Privacy above security primarily because of this U.S anti communist attitudes that have led to a lot problems in the U.S and Abroad including the C.I.A helping the South African Government arrest Mandela.BigTuk said:
I'm trying to use right wing logic to go make the NSA look bad. I'm not really for American soldiers going over seas its still stupid that the U.S government would send them overseas to fight for rights that they're own government is violating. Its a waste of Trillions of dollars and its the reason the global economy is in the crapper.Zachary Amaranth said:
Lets see?.am I planning on engaging in any acts of terror, murder, rape, etc.? Nope. I guess that means I don't really give a crap about what the NSA sees me doing.
I know not buying a game console will not prevent all invasions on my privacy. However, there's a chance I could get mauled by a bear. There's a better chance of getting attacked by a bear if I have one in my living room. Likewise, I could be playing a game on Xbox One. I get a phone call, and put the game on pause. Yet, the camera and microphone is still on. So, during the course of the conversation, I get into a political discussion. Out of frustration, I say, "Someone should kill the President!" If the NSA was listening, do you think that they would act on that?
Security and privacy are not on the opposite end of the same spectrum. You can reasonably secure a country without invading everybody privacy. We simply need reasonable check and balances with the NSA. As in, don't spy on someone unless you have reasonable suspicion to do so. We don't have that check and balance in place, and that is what causing a lot of people anxiety.
Security and privacy are not on the opposite end of the same spectrum. You can reasonably secure a country without invading everybody privacy. We simply need reasonable check and balances with the NSA. As in, don't spy on someone unless you have reasonable suspicion to do so. We don't have that check and balance in place, and that is what causing a lot of people anxiety.
I probably won't change my buying habits. I'm going to be spied on by the NSA no matter what I do, because that's the world we live in. So I might as well continue buying what I actually want to buy.
Absolutely not. Not only because it's safer to assume they can always spy on everything you do, but also because absolutely nothing I do in an online game is any worse than what I would say or do online.
Plus, I don't have the power to stop the NSA anyway, in a very literal sense since I'm Canadian.
Plus, I don't have the power to stop the NSA anyway, in a very literal sense since I'm Canadian.
