Fwd: [Infowarrior] - Creepy Kinect Narc potential

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

Wait... what?

- ferg


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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Subject: [Infowarrior] - Creepy Kinect Narc potential
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Microsoft Is Turning Kinect Into a Narc

 Leslie Horn

http://gizmodo.com/5958094/microsoft-is-turning-kinect-into-a-narc

Kinect is tons of fun. Have you ever played Dance Central 3? Great
game. But according to a newly discovered patent, the Xbox add-on is
also maybe spying on you, which is totally not cool, man.

This very big brother-y piece of intellectual property—Content
Distribution Regulation by Viewing User—uses Kinect's camera to count
the number of people in the room and in some cases, identify who they
are. This "consumer detector" will charge you licensing fees based on
how many bodies are present, and could even stop playback to collect
on you if it detects more humans than you've paid for.

Sorry if you have a baby face, because the tech could also check on
ages and cut off mature content if the system doesn't think you're old
enough. God, Kinect. Such a tattletale! [USPTO via Geekwire via
BetaBeat]

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