Ever since a Microsoft executive turned on the Xbox One with a voice command—"Xbox on"—potential customers have wondered what Microsoft's new console will see hear, and report back to Redmond.
On Thursday night, Microsoft filed an updated privacy policy that lays it all out—in the sort of exhaustive detail that typifies a legal document. We've dug through it and tried to summarize the most relevant bits.
What's new? Microsoft offers more information on how the Xbox One's Kinect sensor uses your data, plus an explicit "Kinect Off" command in case you want to be sure the console's camera isn't watching you. And there's an explicit warning that anything you say during a multiplayer session may be heard by other players. (Well, duh.)
The bottom line: how Microsoft uses your data appears reasonable, at least to us. And at the time we wrote this, of course.
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