Francis is going to have a heart-attack one of these days.
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Big difference is that the camera on your laptop or cell phone isn't always on and connected to Microsoft's network. And the issue isn't so much worrying about hacking as it is an invasion of privacy. How long do you figure before we hear about the first police warrant to get Microsoft to hand over the footage from someone's Xbox One? With how incarceration happy the US government is I bet they're just salivating at the thought of potentially millions of people voluntarily sticking a surveillance system in their living rooms
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Couple problems...
1. The camera always on and connected to Microsoft's network? A phone is connected to a cellular provider's network. The Xbox One - let's assume for argument sake (since I don't know with any certainty) - is connected all the time to the Xbox Live servers. If I open the Camera app to take a picture with my cell phone, could someone view the image during the time which my camera is active? What stops someone from compromising my cellular phone and doing the same thing?
And if the argument is "But the camera is on all the time", well if someone has the skill to hack your phone, I'm sure they have the skill to get the mic and camera to turn on too and record audio/video. And cell phone cameras do not have a little LED indicating that they're on.
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2. Hand over
what footage? You're assuming they're even recording it. What purpose would that serve?
The only thing I would speculate that might be sent back to the Microsoft servers is voice metrics, used to tune the voice recognition system. Windows Phone, for example, must have a data connection (WiFi or Cellular) to use voice recognition because the voice patterns it uses aren't stored on the phone - it's cloud-based, which allows the recognition to improve as people use it. Apple's Siri is the same way.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
And people should be concerned about MS knowing their feelings about something because...
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