How the new Xbox Dash watches your every move

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Microsoft has released a new video about the upcoming Xbox 360 Dashboard update. There's not a great deal of new information to be had, though this is one of the few public glimpses of the new dash offered by the company.

One worrying note about the video: There's a large emphasis on the revised Dashboard learning about the user. As Xbox Live corporate VP Marc Whitten forebodingly puts it, "It's not about you learning about our technology, it's about our technology learning about you [emphasis added]." In other words, you might want to stop gaming in your underwear.



Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/17/video-how-the-new-xbox-dash-watches-your-every-move/

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-Jordan-Posted:

This doesn't refer to Microsoft physically watching you through your kinect camera since doing so would be highly illegal. It instead refers to them tracking what actions you carry out on their system just like Facebook, Google and thousands of other websites and systems do. Quite simply it's a marketing strategy to help them make the Xbox interface easier to navigate and decide on new features.

I_R_T9XPosted:

Couple things, is the live tv gonna be free?
or is it gonna be like Comcast ect...

DidactPosted:

Damn, looks like i cant go commando(naked) now while playing. :D

MPAAPosted:

Rockst4rLobbies "In other words, you might want to stop gaming in your underwear"
in other words they are going to try and stop modding all together


I never knew that gaming naked was considered as modding by M$

CaptainMorganPosted:

I am playing Kinect naked from now on. See how they like it.

SalmineseePosted:

The title of this article scared me.

Jacob8hockeyPosted:

I think the wording in this article is very mis leading :/

And to the people saying its an invaision of privacy don't think that they havent thought about this already. Its probably in the terms of use of the Kinect/Xbox.

When they say watching your every move I don't think they literally meant watch you play because they can't watch everyone at once. And if they do it would be a random few. I think what is meant is that they are gonna be able to detect modding and stuff better with the new dash.

Rockst4rLobbiesPosted:

"In other words, you might want to stop gaming in your underwear"
in other words they are going to try and stop modding all together

EstablishedGamingPosted:

IM Going To Put a pic in front of my kinect saying piss off microsoft simple

MPAAPosted:

M$ watch your every move, lol seriously who would have thought it! :P this defo sounds like 1984, and will be the main reason why my kinect stays on my JTAG, Simple.


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