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Privacy on Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE

Privacy on Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE

At Microsoft, your privacy is our priority. Xbox LIVE offers a number of privacy and safety settings that allow you to choose what information you display about yourself and who can contact you. You can also decide whether to apply these same or stricter settings to Xbox accounts for children.

To change the online safety and privacy settings for any profile on your console:

  1. Go to My Account.

  2. In the upper-right corner, click Sign In.

  3. Enter the details of the account you want to review.

  4. Click My Account.

  5. Under Settings and Preferences, click Privacy and Online Settings.

  6. Click individual settings to make your privacy choices.

Privacy and Online Settings - My Account


Privacy settings

The following table describes the privacy settings that you can set:

This setting... Controls... Options
Profile Sharing Who can see your Xbox LIVE profile—including personal information, game history, and achievements
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Blocked
Kinect Sharing Whether or not you can upload photos and videos that you take while playing Kinect games to websites or services such as KinectShare.com. You can download, print, and share photos that you upload to KinectShare.com. Learn how to share in-game photos and videos.
  • Allowed
  • Blocked
Social Network Sharing Whether or not the profile can post to social networks such as Facebook.
  • Allowed
  • Blocked
Game History Who can see your game history and your achievements
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Blocked
Online Status Who can see what game or application you are currently playing
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Blocked
Video Status Who can see the title of the video you are viewing while connected to Xbox LIVE
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Blocked
Friends List Who can see your friends list
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Blocked
Voice Data Collection Whether Microsoft can collect samples of voice commands spoken when using Kinect. This information will be used to help improve Microsoft speech recognition.
  • Allowed
  • Blocked
Exercise Info Sharing Choose if and how your exercise info is shared on Xbox LIVE between everyone, your friends, no one, or not stored on Xbox LIVE at all.
Minors cannot select “Everyone” when sharing Exercise Info.
  • Everyone
  • Friends Only
  • Private
  • Offline

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