The XBox Thread - Page 80

2.1%

That is the percentage of requests that Microsoft receives from governments that result in the disclosure of what Microsoft calls “customer content,” which it describes by example as for instance “the subject line and body of an email exchanged through Outlook.com; or a picture stored on SkyDrive.” That in mind, the vast majority - 97.9% – of met requests end in the release non-consumer content, which could be a location of residence, or gender of the account holder.

That information still matters, but it is far less rubber-glove than the Feds being able to read through your email and tease out what sort of pornography is your main preference. I almost kid.

For the 2012 calendar year, Microsoft served 1,558 requests that resulted in the disclosure of consumer content, and 56,388 that included the release of non-consumer content.

In 2012, Microsoft did not answer 16.8% of government requests, as they did not have the data in question. Or, as its spreadsheet dictates, 16.8% of requests resulted in “Disclosure of No Customer Data.” If they didn’t have it, they didn’t make it up.

The 1.2% figure is far more interesting, as it represents the percentage of requests that resulted in no information being provided, as the request was, and again I quote, “Rejected for Not Meeting Legal Requirements.” Or in common speak, “No, we aren’t telling you shit about that.”

On May 26 2013 10:38 Blisse wrote:


No, this is what people say to think that they think they're better than others.

The voice recognition and tracking is really cool and interesting, and it's cool that Microsoft is the one stepping up to push this kind of technology forward because they already have a really good platform to try out these "innovations", rather than having a random company show up in the next couple years to do this exact thing that Microsoft is trying out now.

I don't mind the Kinect if I can just turn it around and have it face the floor - not sure if that's been mentioned yet.




What happened to the days where your phone only called people? What happened to the day where your computer was only used for computing numbers? This is attempting to move forward technology. And attempting is better than not, I would guess.

On May 27 2013 17:29 nam nam wrote:
Since when is voice and motion control "innovative?"

On May 27 2013 19:53 nimdil wrote:
Sony always seemed to be more relaxed company.

On May 27 2013 08:39 mahnini wrote:
imagine yourself (if you will) group chatting with your teammates on your over skype while discussing and organizing tonight's upcoming match. now, imagine you are doing this during lunch on your mobile phone and regardless of where your teammates are they get the message and are able to respond. at the same time, you are able to contact the opposing team's leader and confirm a time. once that's done you setup a calendar appointment and setup reminders for each of your teammates (there's nothing worse than teammates late for a match!)

the day's over, you hop in your car which happens to have bluetooth hands free integration. traffic is moving a little slower than usual today. you skype call your go-to-guy and inform him that you may be a little late and he should try to round up everyone because you won't be home in time to do it yourself like you normally do.

half an hour later, you hit your front door, yell "XBOX ON" as you step inside and shed your backpack, bag, or what have you. you play out your match and win. it was pretty fun.

you think there could've been improvement though, not that anyone in particular played badly (except gary; gary always plays badly), so you organize a skype video chat with everyone while sharing the replay. long after the replay is over and constructive criticism has been dispensed while shooting the shit, you receive a notification that the season finale of your favorite show is on in 30 mins.

you say your goodbyes and do some chores (like eating and junk like that) before streaming favorite show on your computer over the network via your xbox whilst checking your emails. it was a good episode. your post on facebook got 8 likes.

you're a little tired but not quite ready for bed so you grab your tablet and watch some local news (again streaming from your xbox) in bed before finally turning in.

from a gaming perspective the xbox one is kind of a let down (if you can even say that -- since really its gaming capabilities are yet unproven). but from a business and user perspective, the convergence of all your electronic devices and the ability to create a persistent and seamless user experience is unimaginably awesome. not only does it give microsoft a ubiquitous presence in your home, but it effectively usurps google's search dominance by introducing an additional layer (for lack of a better word) before you hit the browser, and has the potential to build a far more cohesive ecosystem than android.

desktop, phone, xbox, tablet all running windows? no problem, we'll make sharing apps, storage, contacts, EVERYTHING extremely convenient. it all depends on microsoft's execution, but it would be pretty amazing if they pull this off correctly.

On May 27 2013 10:45 Fruscainte wrote:
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/03/21/full-disclosure-microsoft-releases-and-breaks-down-government-requests-for-user-data-the-world-around/

And so the claims of being "paranoid" come full circle.





I dont think this is a company I feel comfortable with putting a camera and microphone permanently recording me in my house. Only 1.2% of the time they denied the government rights to information on users when requested? Keep in mind Microsoft is on the forefront of internet censorship, so it doesn't surprise me they cooperate with the government but Jesus -- they don't even TRY 98.8% of the time to say no.

Man I've been sipping on that haterade today

“Similar to the movie and music industry, games must meet country-specific regulatory guidelines before they are cleared for sale”

On May 26 2013 02:48 AnomalySC2 wrote:


Yeah that's kind of how I look at it. It's impressive tech but the privacy issues are beyond absurd. Can't believe MS are even trying to go down that path.

On May 27 2013 23:16 dcemuser wrote:


Said the opponents of the radio, the telephone, photographs, film, television, computers, the internet, cell phones, and basically anything done past the invention of the wheel.

In this case, as usual, the privacy issues are concerns of people who have no clue how technology works.

A) Everyone and their mother and their mother's server admin is going to notice if Xbox One transmits absolute fucktons of data back to Microsoft for normal Kinect usage.
B) Seriously, people propose that Microsoft is going to analyze hundreds of thousands of gamers each with hours upon hours of video/microphone/real-life telemetry per week. The processing power, data storage, and internet requirements do not EXIST to handle that much data in one place. Twitch is a professional service that serves less than a million simultaneous users on probably less than 2000-3000 streams at once and can't hold its servers stable and people are suggesting that this is possible? If Microsoft could pull anything even close to what is being suggested, we should just hand them the keys to planet Earth and say "go crazy".

If we were living in 2150, you'd have a point. I'd be agreeing and nodding my head. In 2013, the people making these 'privacy concern' arguments look crazy. Seriously. You might as well make the argument that your cell phone is recording all of your calls because it's a vastly more valid argument than the Kinect 2.0 one.

On May 27 2013 23:16 dcemuser wrote:


Said the opponents of the radio, the telephone, photographs, film, television, computers, the internet, cell phones, and basically anything done past the invention of the wheel.

In this case, as usual, the privacy issues are concerns of people who have no clue how technology works.

A) Everyone and their mother and their mother's server admin is going to notice if Xbox One transmits absolute fucktons of data back to Microsoft for normal Kinect usage.
B) Seriously, people propose that Microsoft is going to analyze hundreds of thousands of gamers each with hours upon hours of video/microphone/real-life telemetry per week. The processing power, data storage, and internet requirements do not EXIST to handle that much data in one place. Twitch is a professional service that serves less than a million simultaneous users on probably less than 2000-3000 streams at once and can't hold its servers stable and people are suggesting that this is possible? If Microsoft could pull anything even close to what is being suggested, we should just hand them the keys to planet Earth and say "go crazy".

If we were living in 2150, you'd have a point. I'd be agreeing and nodding my head. In 2013, the people making these 'privacy concern' arguments look crazy. Seriously. You might as well make the argument that your cell phone is recording all of your calls because it's a vastly more valid argument than the Kinect 2.0 one.