Call me crazy, but many governments are suspicious of essentially the same issues.
There has been a lot of controversy spewing across the internet communities involving the Xbox One's consumer policies. There are three very big issues everyone is talking about
: Used game/license fees, the 24 hour mandatory check-in and Kinect always being on. The German Federal Data Protection Commissioner was not at all pleased with that last piece of info.
Prominent German news and information site, Spiegel, managed to get in a word or two with their own Ferderal Data Protection Commissioner, Peter Schaar. The man in charge of protecting consumer privacy from digital, physical or unapproved data intrusion had this to say about Kinect 2.0 being always-on, always-listening and potentially always-watching...
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Under the heading, game device 'Microsoft pushes a monitoring device in the market," ... "The Xbox continuously records all sorts of personal information about me. Reaction rates, my learning or emotional states. [They] are then processed on an external server, and possibly even passed on to third parties. Whether they will ever deleted, the person can not influence."
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Germany's FDP Commissioner simply stated that...
"The fact that Microsoft now spying on my living room is merely a twisted nightmare."
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http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbo...DPC-56097.html