The government is spying on us? Eh. The new Xbox will watch us? OMG!!!!
I swear, I've had more conversations with people expressing outrage over the fact that the new Xbox One will have an always-on Kinect video camera sensor than the fact our phone calls are being tapped and our emails read.
Priorities 
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Remember, these guys made their nut, not by inventing something wonderful, but by clever aquisition of technology that they even more cleverly made ubiquitous. Their model ever since has been to leverage the fact that their operating system shipped automatically with most new computers. They used it to squeeze out competing browsers, music players, and other software by arguing that all of these things were simply "part of" Windows.
The fact Microsoft now wants their updated, motion-sensing infrared camera / microphone combination, said to be so sensitive as to be able to "see" when a person's heart rate increases, to sit under presumably millions of television sets, "listening" 24/7 and connected to the Internet is, not unreasonably, unnerving to some. Combine that with the announcement that new Xbox games cannot be loaned, traded, or re-sold, and the idea Microsoft is trying once again to exert unreasonable control over consumers starts to resemble our fears of an intrusive, ubiquitous "Big Brother" pretty closely.
And of course, government spying is now carried out in large part by contractors in the private sector. Something tells me Microsoft would not shy away from the opportunity to be part of that.
http://mobihealthnews.com/22628/xbox-one-kinect-2-0-and-the-future-of-health-technology/
SUPER exciting.
I'm usually the first to jump on the bandwagon to. But these are taking camera based intrusion of privacy to whole new levels. 
The one thing I've always wondered is how people can put their entire lives on Facebook, yet in the same breath scream about too much government intrusion on our private lives. And then things like Google Glass and Xbox One come along that are essentially going to give the NSA free data down to the most minute detail... why even have the fourth amendment anymore? 
