With the announcement of Microsoft’s next generation gaming console, the Xbox One, it has emerged that the new system carries a device that will be ‘constantly listening’ to gamer’s conversations.
During a PR move designed to make the Xbox One appear more attractive, Microsoft’s hardware program manager, John Link, let slip that a component bundled with the console, the Kinect, will contain a microphone that never turns off.
The current version of the Kinect also contains a microphone but that can be switched off .... http://rinf.com/alt-news