As the launch of the new next-generation Microsoft Xbox One games console edges ever closer, Microsoft is preparing for its launch and has this week released a newly updated Xbox privacy policy. Which it hopes will quell concerns about its Kinect 2.0 motion gesture controller and the data that it will be recording.
The Microsoft Kinect controller is being bundled with every Xbox One games console and will play an integral part of the consoles set up and system. Enabling gamers to control functions and navigate through both menus and within games using voice controls and hand gestures. As well as play specific games tailored for gesture-based interaction.
Microsoft has explained the menu Xbox privacy policy that there Kinect camera measures distances between key points on your face every time you login to make sure that it has the correct person logged as playing with the console. Microsoft has explained that these numbers and data cannot be used by anyone else and they remain on the local Xbox One console.
Also Kinect data used to define your facial expressions within some games does not identify you and also stays on the console and is destroyed once your session ends. Microsoft has also explained that it would “not target ads to you based on any data Kinect collects unless you choose to allow us to do so”-“except as described in this privacy statement, we won’t disclose your personal information to a third party without your consent,”
The latest Xbox privacy policy reads: “Xbox Services are supported by advertising,”-“Because Microsoft serves advertisements on the console and on our own web sites as well as those of our advertising and publisher partners, we are able to compile information over time about your use of Xbox services and the types of pages, content and ads you visited or viewed online.
“This information is used for many purposes, including to help select and display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you. When we display online advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent cookies on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we display an ad to you.”
Microsoft adds that you can opt out of targeted ads from the Xbox One if preferred. Read the full and newly updated Xbox One privacy policy to make sure you know exactly what you are getting into before you purchase an Xbox One.
The Xbox One games console will also offer full 7.1 surround sound support and launches on November 22nd 2013 and is priced at $499.99 in the US, £429.99 in the UK and 499.99 Euros throughout Europe and $599.99 AU in Australia.
Source: Eurogamer
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