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Microsoft makes Xbox One Kinect privacy assurances

article published on 2 November, 2013

A Microsoft document details how Xbox One Kinect users' data is protected under the new system. Questions had been raised about privacy issues with the new Kinect, which can recognize and automatically sign in different players based on information it stores about them. The system measures distance between facial features and converts it into numerical data. According to Microsoft, ... [ read the full article ]

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Menion
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_ 		3. November 2013 @ 08:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"the information stays on the Xbox One console and is not shared with third parties or backed up to Microsoft servers."

hmm I would have figured the NSA would have technically been a Third Party, but guess they are 1st party these days.
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xtago
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_ 		3. November 2013 @ 10:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Till it's hacked and your info is open for anyone to get.
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