Microsoft says Kinect Won't Snoop on You

For millions of people who somehow connected the NSA and the USA government's outrageous snooping on its own citizenry with the fact that Xbox One has Kinect 2 and will snoop too, Microsoft's Phill Harrison brings sadness.

Yes, Harrison's news could put paid to many nights happy tinfoil hat making and the realisation that 1984 isn't going to happen with Xbox One because, well, no one is really interested in your Halo tactics or Coke drinking habits or furniture choices.

"We aren't using Kinect to snoop on anybody at all." The company as a whole goes further, stating:

"Microsoft insists that it wouldn’t help the government turn Kinect into an eavesdropping device. Quite the opposite, in fact.

"Absent (Without the introduction of) a new law, we don’t believe the government has the legal authority to compel us or any other company that makes products with cameras and microphones to start collecting voice and video data, and we’d aggressively challenge in court any attempts to try and force us to do so", it said in a statement.

Dang it, somehow we feel a teeny bit less important than we did before. Maybe we *should* do something to make the government NOTICE US!!

Eurogamer Via Verge