I am American. However, even though it's a constitutional right, that fact doesn't make me any more bothered that my privacy is being violated. It does make me more bothered that other peoples' privacies are being violated.Dansrage said:If you're an American you should be concerned because it directly violates your constitution in several areas, if you live somewhere else it will severely violate privacy laws. If you're British you have no rights and deserve to be abused. There is nobody controlling these companies, they can give this information to whoever they want, the potential for abuse is absolutely massive. The NSA didn't have this kind of information and look at the scandal it caused. In the case of the Kinect it's not only your browsing habits or your phone calls and emails, but your medical data that is being shared without your consent with whoever will pay. There are very specific laws that require the police to get permission from a court before tapping a phone or bugging a house, and here's Microsoft doing it completely unsupervised.Alcom1 said:Yeah, I'm one of those people, not easily bothered by my personal info escaping like this. Not that I don't understand the feeling against personal info being grabbed by such devices and being used for whatever purpose, it's quite justified.
These laws exist for good reasons.
Maybe I'm just lacking imagination as to how my personal information might be used.