Voyeur's delight

Microsoft is off to a poor start on privacy matters with their Xbox One console.  I was surprised to hear that you must maintain a constant connection to the internet whilst playing games.  You must also be connected to Kinect - the 3D camera and microphone with the console.

Potentially you could be spied on and listened to then pay for the privilege since it's your connection that is being used to send any information back up the line.

Just putting aside whether Microsoft may want to spy on you, what about anyone else that gains access to your connection or hacks into the Xbox servers?

Coming in the same week that we hear that the NSA's Prism programme has direct access to trawl through our private data held at some of the world's biggest providers, anyone with anything to hide probably shouldn't be hooking one of these consoles up. 

There's probably going to be a lot of discussion on this one so watch the web for stories.  In the meantime when you get your shiny new console, probably best not to play games in your underpants or worse and only say nice things about Redmond. You never know who's looking in.

Xbox One has spying eye (Stuff)