Over the weekend Advertising Age wrote a rather explosive article on Kinect's potential for advertising, quoting  Microsoft's Marketing and Strategy Vice President Yusuf Mehdi, and putting the company on the spot with allegations that the Xbox One's Kinect could be used to gather personal data on its users.Today Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb took to Twitter to specify that the article is basically bogus, and that Microsoft is seeking a correction of the story from Advertising Age.

Hryb's position echoes what Director of Product Planning Albert Penello said a few days ago about the issue. Will Microsoft manage to put out the fires? We'll have to see about that, but their position seems quite firm.