Microsoft just released an updated version of their Xbox privacy statement explaining not just how Xbox One‘s Kinect collects our user data but also about Xbox products and services. I will outline the stuff you need to know in a series of parts or cuts.
Please use this information as a guideline when using Microsoft products and services for the first time or upgrading. It would be presumptuous to believe that you do not need to read any statements concerning the very things you are most animate about on the Internet such as Privacy, Terms of Service, User Agreements, Internet Rights, etc.
Cut 1: User Accounts and Personal Information
I outlined Microsoft accounts and how your personal information is collected and used.
1. Microsoft accounts are still created and used the same way as you use it now. You create a Microsoft account to login to your Xbox Live account plus other Microsoft products, services and their partner’s products and services.
2. It’s important to read the privacy statement on websites that require access to your Microsoft account, or you want to use your Microsoft account to login. Microsoft does not monitor these websites and these websites do not have the same privacy statements as Microsoft.
3. Gamertags will still be relevant and transferable to Xbox One.
You don’t need to carry over your Xbox Live to Xbox One if you don’t want to. But if you do, all your Achievements and Gamerscore points will carry over.
4. Gamertags will remain to be 16 characters in length, if you choose to not keep your current gamertag and create a new one.
5. Keep in mind that any personal information that Microsoft collects are used to improve their services, products, experience and advertising. Microsoft may or may not hand over your personal information to the government upon request, but that is a risk you are willing to take once you agree to their terms of service upon using their products and services.
The Information Microsoft Collects
1. The information you provide yourself: Registration profiles, signing in to apps, websites, etc.,
2. Browsing through their services: collects your IP address, cookies, location, the pages you visit, and features you use.
3. Service Statistics: Tracking your move every time you visit their services or products connected to the internet.
4. The device you use to sign on Xbox Live in order to prevent or stop cheating: information about applications, software, hardware running on the device, your IP Address, and other non-personally identifiable information.
5. Searching using Bing: All search terms are stored and Xbox voice-search clips are stored, both of which are kept separately from any account information that personally identifies you.
6. Live Television: stores information about the Live television you watch, only from Adult account and not from Child or Teen accounts. You can opt-out of this collection.
7. Xbox Music and Video: Music and Video you purchase or stream from Microsoft through Xbox.
8. Third-party videos: You can purchase videos or stream from third-party apps on Xbox. Microsoft can collection this data but you can opt-out.
How Microsoft collects your personal information
Microsoft collects your information through these:
1. web forms
2. Web technologies like beacons and cookies (I recommend using the Chrome app Ghostery to block beacons and advert tracking)
3. web logging (Tell your browser you don’t want to be tracked)
4. software installed on your device (Go to individual software to view their settings/preferences and see if they have an option to disable sending anonymous information)
How Microsoft will use your personal information
1. Microsoft uses your personal information to operate, improve and personalize the products and services they offer.
2. Communication to their users about their account and security updates
3. Advertising on the platforms you use to access your Microsoft account
Reasons Microsoft shares your personal information with others
Microsoft does not disclose your personal information to a third-party without consent, except for these cases:
1. Within Microsoft affiliates and subsidiaries
2. As part of a merger or sale of a business
3. With vendors and agents of Microsoft
4. When required by law or to respond to legal process or lawful requests, including from law enforcement or other government agencies
5. When required to combat fraud or protect our interests
6. To protect life and safety
More information on how they fully disclose your information in certain situations, click here - http://www.microsoft.com/pr...
How to access your personal information
1. View or edit your personal information including billing and account information, privacy settings, online safety, and data sharing preferences by going to Xbox.com/Accounts, or through the settings on the Xbox 360 or Xbox One console.
2. Cancel your account anytime by calling customer support. You cannot delete your account online or through the Xbox 360 or Xbox One console. Believe me, I tried.
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Stay tuned for the Cut 2: Kinect, Xbox Media and Video Uploading Privacy
Sources: Microsoft Xbox Privacy Statement | IGN Xbox One Wikis
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Replies(3)Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.
not everyone’s having a great first weekend with the game.
A number of players have complained that the release’s map screen is causing their PS5 consoles to overheat.
I remember my ps4 pro fans going nuts on hzd map screen or when I was entering old yharnam on my base ps4 :p loud times lol
Never had that problem.
Is there any videos, I’m really interested to see what they mean. I didn’t even know there was an over heating warning lol
That’s a plain lie . Any gaming news website or gaming enthusiast as heard about the issue . Not all ps5 ma suffers from it but it’s quit common. The average consumer has no idea how to clean the ps5 fan and interior properly . like a good old computers The gaming landscape is constantly changing and consoles are more likely to be small budget pcs without extra content . If you clean your pc you gotta clean your ps5 . I have one of those Amazon fans that helps a lot but I gotta clean my fan ever few months because i get this issue when I play higher demanding games . Had this issue mainly with Final fantasy 16 2 years ago . And it just did it to me last week on my REvillage run 😭😭😭. Clean those fans boys
no.
i never heard of this.
i played 16 too, for days, in the summer and never had this issue.
ive had my ps5 half a year after it came out and there was next to no dust inside. maybe your home is the issue or where u put it.
I’m talking about death stranding 2. Opening the map and it causes over heating sign to pop up.
Because it’s not happening to me.
But either way I have never seen an over heated warning sign.
I played so much games on my ps5, hundreds of hours. Played every game you said caused your ps5 to over heat and give you the warning sign.
Yeah the fan gets loud once in awhile but I have never seen an over heating warning sign.
Maybe you and many other needs to clean your gaming area or check your set up to allow proper air flow because I had my ps5 for years now and I cleaned it less then 5 times and every time I barely had any dust.
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Clean your fans, that probably the biggest issue. It’s really easy to do with PS5/Pro.
There has been some rumors of Liquid Metal leaking for launch PS5’s but I’m not sure how true that is. I kept my launch PS5 vertical for first 3 years or so with no problems but switched it to horizontal when I gave it to my daughter, just in case.
I am playing DS2 right now but I’m on the Pro and have no issues at all, besides not enough time to play as much as I’d like to.
Some sort of a new Illuminate beam was revealed in the latest Helldivers 2 leaks. The data miner behind raises hype for the summer.
To be honest with everything that is being sold today all companies are doing this. Think the movie Minority Report where your eyes are scanned and they immediately the store offers specials in inventory in the guy's size.
I am not saying that it is right,it isn't. Fighting it will delay the inevitable but ultimately the taxes and fees that this type of advertising rakes in governments will surely capitalize on it. George Orwell's 1984 will be here by 2024 albeit without all the blatant thought policing. Masked as advertising and network controlling (i.E PSN and Xbox Live) our movements and purchases will be tracked and documented, and maybe not directly available to police agencies but as easy if not easier than what we have seen today. The governments will see this as an almost completely free method of surveillance.
And No I am not a conspiracy theorist, i go about normal life, i have nothing to hide. But the fact is that the government doesn't tell us what they are doing. when someone like Snowden does what he did half the people call him a traitor the other half a hero. Add another attack on North American Soil, or what not, how quick do those who view him a hero will change their minds? Easier to say " sure i will give up my privacy to avoid more lives being destroyed." than "no i like my privacy. Joey down the street can go to hell."