We all love our entertainment and media devices such as game consoles. Though we surrender lots of our time to games is it really all fun and games? Think about all the information and data your game console already knows about you which is stored away in some massive database. Who cares right as long as we are having fun? After all entering all our personal information into an online gaming network sounds just fine to me as long as I can access all the latest fun and virtual entertainment right? Well here is an example of what a gaming console can learn about you.
There is a wave of concern over the privacy implications of our increasing reliance on Facebook and Google. What most people don’t realize, however, is that these issues are dwarfed by the potential for privacy invasion that’s presented by a gaming platform and lets consider the Kinect.
People choose to post personal information on Facebook and Google. Game platforms like the Kinect, by contrast, continuously observe your nonverbal behavior. Movements and gestures may seem harmless to share with others, but decades of psychological research demonstrate that the way you move is more revealing than what you say.
Though it’s designed for gaming, the Kinect can be modified to track other behaviors as well. Scientists at the University of Southern California have already used devices much simpler than the Kinect to diagnose classroom behavior. A system examining nonverbal behavior in real time could use this data to automatically diagnose kids in school. Other scientists have developed applications for detecting behavior in the home. Let's take this deeper and perhaps this technology could be modified to be used in police cameras to observe and analyze your behavior.
It just illustrates how something as harmless such as an entertainment device can evolve to into so much more...
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