A 14yr old kid in New Zealand just recently won my personal "Dumb of the Month" award. He was recently picked up for stealing an XBOX 360 after he tried to go online with it. The problem was that the previous owner had already registered it with Microsoft. After the boy ordered another power cable (since he forgot to steal it) they had his address. Wow... I am always amazed at people...

Anyway, it seems this has brought up all kinds of Privacy Policy Issues with Microsoft. It seems it took the police over 2 weeks to get the information out of Microsoft even though they knew something wasn't right with the whole thing. Now, there are two ways you can understand this. Your personal information is VERY secure and Microsoft will protect you no matter what or if your XBOX is stolen it might be kinda hard to get Microsoft to tell you where it is. But Microsoft holds that they were in the right and are very protective of their clients identities, but are always happy to assist the police.

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