Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”
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So they can review reports and ban people
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 21:51 last edited byThat makes sense, thank you.
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does anyone truly believe there exists a chat that is NOT recorded?
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 22:23 last edited byUm, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE
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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
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I once shit talked to coworkers about another coworker/supervisor. Except, by accident, I sent it to the coworker/supervisor.
Good times.
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 22:30 last edited bya very real possibility to be worried about!
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does anyone truly believe there exists a chat that is NOT recorded?
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 23:07 last edited byRoger Wilco, lol.
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I once shit talked to coworkers about another coworker/supervisor. Except, by accident, I sent it to the coworker/supervisor.
Good times.
wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 23:28 last edited byWhen i was younger and only a few years into my career, I and a coworker talked crap about our 2 bosses for a while over Google chat. It's what we were asked to use back them internally, but it wasn't even our work accounts. We only talked because they were being absolutely awful. Well, joke was on us when they got suspicious and searched our computers and found the chats were locally saved... Oops! They gave us another chance shockingly but did chew us out. I'm still at this place, but none of those people exist here anymore and that was super long ago.
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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
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 00:49 last edited by firipu@lemmy.world 6 May 2025, 23:45Right... As if 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.
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does anyone truly believe there exists a chat that is NOT recorded?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 02:55 last edited byThe only chat not recorded is the one that happens in person with no electronic devices nearby.
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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
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:06 last edited byYou can even disable the Gamechat button
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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
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:10 last edited bySo does that count for Sony, Microsoft and Valve too or just Nintendo?
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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 story.
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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.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 09:01 last edited byYeah I'm not sure why that's news. At least Nintendo is being somewhat transparent about it
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The only chat not recorded is the one that happens in person with no electronic devices nearby.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 13:34 last edited byHell, I feel like that's even up for debate
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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.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 15:29 last edited byOr you just don't use voice chat? It's no use anyways if you disconnect your microphone...
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So does that count for Sony, Microsoft and Valve too or just Nintendo?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 17:06 last edited byIn valves case its just a 30 year old man yelling slurs at their child.
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wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 18:15 last edited by
I joked to my wife "hey I got a joke I got to tell you about the government away from microphones" and my phone's flashlight turned on across the room. My nsa agent is working overtime.
