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Yes I feel uncomfortable enough with my current Kinect that I have it disconnected until needed. However, thinking about it, Siri and Google Now isn't that far
by nivla 13y ago
Yes I feel uncomfortable enough with my current Kinect that I have it disconnected until needed. However, thinking about it, Siri and Google Now isn't that far either. The leap towards this technology was eventually bound to happen and is unavoidable but what matters is where the data is gathered, processed and stored. Within the device or in the cloud?
- uptown 13y agoI think the distinction between something like Siri and this is that this thing constantly has a live mic listening for a keyword, while Siri is completely reactive to intentional voice input. I guess Google Now is a bit more perceptually-aware, but that's based on data you've already implicitly granted them access to through signing up for their services and feeding those services data. I realize that aspects of this are the same - but video data of my living room and voice recordings of everything in my house feels FAR more personal to me than the emails in my inbox or something on my calendar. It's not really a stretch to think that that capability provided by the XBOX ONE and Kinect 2 could be used for both good and evil. Same for Google Glass - it's always waiting for your "Ok Glass" trigger - but also processing everything else to see if it that keyword is said. It's important to know where the data is being processed - but the courts have been pretty forgiving to companies that have overstepped their data-collection boundaries --- and even when they've had to pay a penalty, it's never come close to what I'd consider crippling to the point where they'd never make a similar "mistake" again if it were in the best interests of growing their business.