I was thinking about this other day but then decided I was being to paranoid. Guess not. Hope my roommate does not decide to get one of these cause I'll be avoiding the living room if thats the case. Also I heard someone was already able to hack it so the technology can be used for computers another operating systems. I have a feeling this will eventually spread to a wide level of use on par with todays cell phone technology.
"Microsoft Vice President Dennis Durkin told a conference that the new Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 can watch and report on users. The Kinect, Durkin said, can tell advertisers such details as who is in a room and what they're wearing. "
How the fuck am i supposed to take bong rips while playing my video games when i gotta worry about the Feds watching me through a fucking camera in my living room. WTF.
remember when cell phones got gps trackers installed in them to help in case of emergencies...and then the police used them to monitor people's movements.
the kinect involves an actual camera, the whole basis is that it reads your face and other info about the room, such as stated in the article that it can even tell the system what team jersey you are wearing.
Chatroulette can detect if you have your penis out or not (or actually it cant xD). I really dont think this can be used for anything. I guess microsoft wont save billion of tera octet of videos "in case" or I dunno ... So dont worry too much about it !