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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
We know when we're sending data and when it's on.
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Oh you do, hey? You know
at all times?
Try this little experiment. Turn on your cell phone camera, then block the screen so all you can see is the camera itself. Now do something that would deactivate the camera, like going to the home screen or switching to another app. Do you see any indication that the camera has turned off? Was there ever an indication that it was on? What about the mic?
You have no clue. You can only trust that the technology is working the way you expect it to.
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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
The kinect is always on and presumably connected to the internet. It's always trained on you and your entire living room/family room.
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The Kinect has an off setting (it must, both for privacy issues and due to it being sold in places that require devices that are powered off to draw no electricity). If you're seemingly so eager to be critical of one piece of equipment for these imagined privacy risks, why aren't you critical of the others that do the same thing? And hell, last I checked, neither the Kinect nor the Xbox One it was connected to has GPS / A-GPS built into it.
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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
It's really creepy and unsettling... based in real fears or not.
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That is idiotic, seriously this is the whole friggin' point. Your argument is completely ridiculous and irrational when you refuse to see how they EASILY extrapolate to other devices. The fact that you don't walk around with tape on your cellphone camera lenses leads me to believe you either - in your heart of hearts - don't believe your own rubbish, or simply haven't bothered to think about it.