The fact why the authorities of privacy issues we can expect their cause at worst of all, it is a matter of course. That would give the company submissive different departments all they know about us, also is not surprising. Striking is the fact that the most paranoid fears were confirmed by the scandal PRISM, so little has changed in our lives, and install eavesdropping equipment themselves.
NK threat to privacy? certainly it is different!
How much we are attached to our privacy? When we look at the issue from the perspective of what has happened, a few years ago, our class changed the rules, then you can get the impression that we - the general Internet users - we take this matter very seriously and responsibly .
Because change in the regulations, according to which operating in Poland and subject to Polish law firm could in the contract described in the use of user data, some hair bristled on his head. What are you holding the illusory (but better than none!) Supervision of the Inspector General, what's up with elementary school friends! Boiled in his veins the blood of ancestors from Grunwald and Kircholmu, indignant defenders descendants redoubt Ordon. And the protest began to call for action delete accounts from our class .
Soon after, in the swept Facebook and no one cared about some nonsense related to privacy.And even when you talk about it, it did little with it. Because let's face it, what could make someone - such as holding this argument stool director of a theater - do not even have a clue about how to set privacy settings for your account? And these people were after much more.
A few months after the scandal with the change of the Rules and the name of Our Class on store shelves materialized Project Natal, the Kinect project. Microsoft's product, but was initially only for the Xbox 360, quickly surpasses all other gadgets, including the iPhone, winning the title of fastest-selling electronic equipment on the planet. Why do I mention this in the context of privacy?
For the record, Kinect is staring at the user as carefully as you for him. And even greater depth, because apart from the camera eye is after IR sensor is used to determine the distance .
In practice, the Kinect sees as the above image, and the technology used in the Israeli company PrimeSense is such for the collection of biometric data and create three-dimensional models of the body . This is useful both in the online fitting room, as well as surveillance systems allow you to identify a man after construction and how to move around.
We will not disclose user data. Unless someone asks us about it ...
Kinect charmed capabilities, provide great entertainment, and from the very beginning aroused concern privacy advocates. Concern is turned into a panic after the presentation of the Xbox One of the new, better Kinect in the mandatory package and pass the information that the device will be able to activate voice command. So - in the translation of marketing jargon - that Microsoft's hardware will we ever listened .
Of course, the very fact that it will be done, it does not follow anything wrong , and Microsoft, putting an image-fire instance, will double and triple, we believe that, although he can, it will never, for the world is not overhear their beloved members. Well, I guess - as quietly mentioned in the regulations such as Xbox LIVE - someone authorized to make such requests politely ask for it.
Or that Microsoft would want to get to know our customs. It's not for nothing that the Redmond company has patented solution that allows users to observe gathered in front of Kinect and analyze their behavior . Do you want to reward? Look at the ads to the end. By the end, I said!Kinect sees you get up from the chair before you finish.
If you use an Xbox With Kinect device, Microsoft may also collect information about how to interact with the console and Services (...) All the data can be stored together with the unique identifier of the Xbox and can be associated with other data enabling identification of the Licensee.
There is nothing wrong with that. But it can be
To avoid misunderstandings: no spins at this point of the conspiracy theories that Microsoft or anyone else is going to spy on their users using Kinect. Probably will not happen, and the provisions of the regulations are primarily the possibility of easily carrying out market research, not spying on users.
Significant is the fact that the surveillance will - in theory - be technically possible. And according to data disclosed by Edward Snowden, if something is technically possible, the authorities have no qualms to use this. Our privacy therefore depends essentially only on the rules, which can be changed at any time , and the promise made by Microsoft. About how poorly protected in such a situation, we - Poles - law mentioned include The Inspector General for Personal Data Protection:
However, while the data acquisition of American citizens is subject to a court order, the more access to the data of citizens of other countries can take place even without a warrant. Internet users must therefore be aware that in the European Union in the field of human rights are protected, while in America the law only protects U.S. citizens.
Citizen, wiretapping for yourself!
The conclusion of all this is that we live in very strange times. Once, years ago the service of a country wanted to eavesdrop or spy anyone had to spend time and money on it to install it at home listening-or at least hook up to the telephone exchange.
It was not practical in some situations be detected, and the circumvention of the law and a large dose of luck - as was the case even in the case of Watergate and President Nixon - could be bad for requesting these actions. So it was in the past.
Today, nobody needs to do, and the NSA and related services can spend their resources on something else. As befits an exemplary consumers in hardware, we supply ourselves.
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