Enjoy your privacy? How would you feel if the government were watching you when you innocently play games? Well, it might.
New documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the company’s surveillance of a variety of online games and services, including but not limited to World of Warcraft and Xbox Live. These operations date to as far back as 2006, and even the CIA was in on the effort.
The agency says it monitors users to prevent acts of terrorism.
Some gamers have shown concern with the Xbox One’s psuedo-mandatory Kinect which has a built-in camera and microphone. Microsoft asserts that it doesn’t monitor users, but recently raised alarm by condemning actions taken by the NSA, going as far as to say that the agency threatens “confidence in the security and privacy of online communications”. Microsoft is in the middle of efforts to encrypt all traffic used by its services.
Next time you kill someone in Call of Duty: Ghosts and they threaten your life, remember, the NSA is watching.
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