Submitted 3 weeks ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/nintendo-warns-switch-2-gamechat-users-your-chat-is-recorded/
This is standard in most platforms with social features, companies record chats in case someone gets reported for negative behavior. It's also temporarily stored so they're not just listening in and hoarding your chats.
The terms also lay out that "these recordings are available only if the report is submitted within 24 hours," suggesting that recordings are deleted from local storage after a full day.
Yeah I’m not sure why that’s news. At least Nintendo is being somewhat transparent about if
I’m surprised they added voice/video chat. One report of a pedo talking to kids on their switch and no parent is gonna buy any Nintendo products for their kids
Right… Just like parents don’t give their kids cellphones or completely unsupervised access to the internet…
You’re giving Joe and Jane Doe way too much credit here.
I’m sure parents actually supervising the internet usage of their kids are a very small percentage.
So does that count for Sony, Microsoft and Valve too or just Nintendo?
In valves case its just a 30 year old man yelling slurs at their child.
That won’t matter. Discus comments are tied to people’s real identities in most cases and that didn’t stop them from posting unhinged bullshit underneath every non-notable story.
The good news is that the mic is a piece of cake (relatively speaking, as someone who has tinkered with electronics before) to disconnect. Will it throw any errors/refuse to boot? Dunno, haven’t seen that attempted yet.
Or you just don’t use voice chat? It’s no use anyways if you disconnect your microphone…
We should assume that our chats/calls are being recorded on services like this. But why exactly is this done? Seems like it leaves a lot of liability on their end and then added costs for the storage of all that data.
Are they required to or are they selling the data?
So they can review reports and ban people
That makes sense, thank you.
For quality and training purposes of course 🙃
Oh yeah, you need to specifically turn it on. Before you do that it won’t do anything. And you have to agree to the terms after you read them
You can even disable the Gamechat button
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
does anyone truly believe there exists a chat that is NOT recorded?
network_switch@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The first time some coworkers told me things they discussed with other work friends over the internal chat service, I was in shock over the stupidity
athairmor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I once shit talked to coworkers about another coworker/supervisor. Except, by accident, I sent it to the coworker/supervisor.
Good times.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Um, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In this context? No. But what’s more interesting is precisely what is recorded.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Roger Wilco, lol.