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NEWS: Microsoft Runs Down Xbox One's Connectivity, Licensing, Privacy Features

To protect your privacy, Microsoft has promised that all your data will be stored at a secure facility run by the NSA.

After purchasing a game digitally or on a disc, it is installed on the owner's Xbox One and can be played by any user. Users will have a "shared game library" that allows up to ten family members to have unlimited access at any time.

They aren't getting any profit from this whole 2nd hand gaming deal.

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After purchasing a game digitally or on a disc, it is installed on the owner's Xbox One and can be played by any user. Users will have a "shared game library" that allows up to ten family members to have unlimited access at any time.

It's a bit sad this is supposed to be selling point/new and innovative feature when this has been the standard for consoles since forever.

Any personal information stored on the Xbox One will not be shared without explicit user permission.

People slagging off MS have clearly lost the plot.
They aren't getting any profit from this whole 2nd hand gaming deal. They have done it due to pressure from developers/publishers, and funny enough, it is their games that sell consoles.

This really makes me wonder about the competence of the people working damage control in Microsoft's PR department.

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Any personal information stored on the Xbox One will not be shared without explicit user permission.

Of course, that wouldn't be such a big issue if the machine wasn't going to be connecting itself to the internet once an hour to babysit, or if consumers had any confidence that Microsoft wouldn't be mining the console for any sort of interesting user data. Frankly I'm amazed that Microsoft would adopt this sort of (almost) always-on tactic after the huge backlash that followed from Ubisoft's always-on DRM. I guess we don't learn from mistakes.

The Post reported late on Thursday that U.S. authorities had been tapping into the central servers of nine internet companies - including Google, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook - to gain access to emails, photographs and other documents and files that would allow analysts to track a person's movements and contacts...Microsoft said it did not voluntarily participate in any government data collection and only complied "with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers.

The statements from the technology companies seemed to suggest the government had gone to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain orders to force cooperation from some or all of the internet companies.

A gamer walks into a retailer and hands over the game they wish to sell. This will only be possible at retailers who have agreed to Microsoft’s T&Cs and more importantly integrated Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure pre-owned system into its own.

The game is then registered as having been traded-in on Microsoft’s system. The consumer who handed it over will subsequently see the game wiped from their account – hence the until now ambiguous claim from Phil Harrison that the Xbox One would have to ‘check in’ to Microsoft’s servers every 24 hours.

Update #2:Microsoft has finally attempted to explain its used-game strategy, and it seems like the responsibility per title will rest on publishers' shoulders. They'll set the fee a retailer must pay per copy of a resold game, and apparently none of that money will go to Microsoft.

Publishers will choose to opt-in per title and will need to select a "participating" (read: Azure/Xbox One cloud-linked) retailer to resell its games at. If a publisher decides not to opt in then that title cannot be resold or, indeed, given to a friend.