Microsoft patents Kinect-like device to count and identify people, page 1

Microsoft patents Kinect-like device to count and identify people

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(Phys.org)—Microsoft Corporation has applied for a patent on new technology that would use a Kinect-like device to count and even perhaps identify people as they watch streamed content. Its purpose would be to allow content providers to restrict the number of people viewing content, or the number of times certain individuals could watch a particular video stream. Such technology they note, could also allow for collecting payment for watching content based on the number of people watching, or pr

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Sounds like technology perfectly ripe for abuse. There would be no conceivable way to verify what data they are actually collecting, and to what end. Especially a large corporation like Microsoft.

You already hear about all the cases of different government or corporate entities abusing webcams,

I for one have a kinect and am thinking about throwing it out, and just using wii when i don't wanna be lazy.

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The day when your tv watches you has come.

Actually many sources and devices are watching us daily.

Nineteen Eighty-Four........................

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Here come all "End-of-World" theories

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Super...This will work great for Corralling us into the fema camps quickly=quick identification

interesting post thnx

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End of the world....who cares.

No more bow chick a wow wow on the couch!

Visions of 1984...... Again.

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What if they are already using it in the Kinect without the public's knowledge? i always had a bad feeling about that Kinect

Time to turn it around

Has anyone read the terms of service for Kinect? You know, that thing you legally agreed to before using it for the first time? Of course you read it, we all read those (sarcasm)

here

As the article in the link puts it, Kinect is "an attractive fun filled device intentionally brought in your home with 4 microphones, 2 cameras, an infrared motion sensor, and a license to freely record and upload your activity". It's not as blatant or obvious as 1984, and it's certainly prettier, but it's possibly worse. Having some hanky panky infront of it could be embarressing, but it could potentially also be watching what you're smoking while playing your games or watching your movies as well.

Not content with 1 camera for every 16 people out in the towns and cities, not content with getting us all excited about getting us to keep our personal diary where they can read it, and getting us to tag and identify all our friends and associates, now they're conning us into getting excited about installing a camera into our homes as well.

But sure, the games are great fun, so it's all fine, it's not 1984 at all. Carry on

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Microsoft is taking Voyeurism to a new level. I think ill keep my ps3

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Does not matter the kinect probably already has every owners 'gimp' (or biometric movement signature/how you walk move) microsoft can then supply this to the government to cross reference with their cctv cameras.

No longer a need for facial recognition... They know how you walk!

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