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Yes. However, it is not apparent which inferences are possible to make with this kind of sensor data. How invasive might this become?
by zxcb1 7y ago
Yes. However, it is not apparent which inferences are possible to make with this kind of sensor data. How invasive might this become?
- ctack 7y agoThey'll classify how people move and join that with profiles they've already created on Facebook. They'll try to figure out if you have any kind of disability.
- mosselman 7y agoIt is not exactly clear to me whether you are down playing the implications or not, but lets assume you are: If this weren't invasive, they wouldn't be doing it. What use would random data be to Facebook? Also, it is irrelevant: if I buy a VR set I want to use it for whatever I see fit, not get hooked into some data collection machine. How is it that we have come to accept that in order to use products, that we buy even, we have to hand over lots of data?
- zxcb1 7y agoI'm not. I believe that this kind of data in combination with machine learning makes for the perfect storm. While users may not understand the difference from before.
- Nasrudith 7y agoSounds like machine learning in this case would lead to GIGO as essentially automated superstition. It would get what, use time, how much time is spent moving using it and maybe height data and try to map to products the advertisers want to sell?
- moron4hire 7y agoThere are cameras and microphones on the things
- classified 7y ago> How invasive might this become? Brain-wave-scanning kind of invasive. FB (and advertising in general) will continue to become ever more invasive until it meets a limiting factor. That limiting factor will possibly be legislation (just not in the US because worshiping the Dollar overrides anything and everything else).
- bagacrap 7y agoDo we know the first thing about how brain waves correlate to any real world properties of a person? If Facebook or anyone else can crack brain waves, ie in a sense "read your mind", it seems like serving ads is the least of our worries, but also pretty exciting in terms of the potential positive applications.
- wizzwizz4 7y agoWe've already got "EEG to categorised-eyeball-images" technology; in fact, that was a relatively primitive application of neural nets. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full No, I don't think it unlikely that the next-gen Oculus might do this.
- sudosysgen 7y agoWell, system that has brain wave data and full information on your visual feed and body position and movement can do quite a bit of correlation
- LegitShady 7y agoAs invasive as they can convince people to buy
- ComodoHacker 7y agoThe article talks about 3D maps of user's environment. One can infer what kind of furniture and home appliances you have and use, for example.
- vonmoltke 7y agoThe article also says Facebook claims that data is remaining local and will not be used for advertising.
- ComodoHacker 7y agoFacebook is well known for such claims, about Instagram, WhatsApp and other things. Data inference may very well be done locally.
- vonmoltke 7y agoSo you think they are lying in a legally-binding document? If that's the case, they would be doing this already and this change would be irrelevant.
- ComodoHacker 7y agoThe article cites answers they had received from Facebook, not "legally-binding document".
- wolco 7y agoThe VR data is local but the fact that you own the device gets sent so ads can be displayed targetting VR owners. So they are not breaking any laws while still targetting you for owning the unit.