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This is what I did as I had deleted my Facebook account years ago. I haven't run into any issues so far and it's been working with my Oculus.

an_opabinia 6y ago
I guess the funny thing about this EU law is, does Facebook know any less about you when you don’t sign into Oculus with your Facebook account? They are the same company.
- Barrin92 6y ago
  Oculus is a subsidiary of Facebook, they're not the same company. Facebook cannot legally use Oculus userdata in Facebook products, at least in the EU that is.
  - Nextgrid 6y ago
    Facebook could not legally use phone numbers provided by users for two-factor verification either. They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences. Currently there is no reason to believe that Facebook should be trusted for anything (based on their past actions) or that the current regulatory environment (both US and EU) is effective at discouraging and punishing violations.
    - Barrin92 6y ago
      > They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences. Wasn't this part of the settlement with the FTC for about 5 billion dollars? I'll agree with you it evidently is not enough to really deter Facebook but I wouldn'T call it nothing, that was one of the largest fines ever handed out. Same in Europe, Google has taken significant fines. Those companies are not untouchable any more. And yeah I don't trust facebook that much either but I don't think they'll blatantly ignore the law intentionally.
  - dathinab 6y ago
    Well once you log into it with you FB account you also might have signed a (likely illegal) TOS/AGB which allows them just that under some esoteric reason like giving you the more person specific advertisement you want by including all you Oculus interactions. Also don't forget that there is quite a social factor to VR and they are pretty much going in the "single player only usage without FB account direction".

an_opabinia 6y ago

I guess the funny thing about this EU law is, does Facebook know any less about you when you don’t sign into Oculus with your Facebook account? They are the same company.

Barrin92 6y ago
Oculus is a subsidiary of Facebook, they're not the same company. Facebook cannot legally use Oculus userdata in Facebook products, at least in the EU that is.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  Facebook could not legally use phone numbers provided by users for two-factor verification either. They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences. Currently there is no reason to believe that Facebook should be trusted for anything (based on their past actions) or that the current regulatory environment (both US and EU) is effective at discouraging and punishing violations.
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    > They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences. Wasn't this part of the settlement with the FTC for about 5 billion dollars? I'll agree with you it evidently is not enough to really deter Facebook but I wouldn'T call it nothing, that was one of the largest fines ever handed out. Same in Europe, Google has taken significant fines. Those companies are not untouchable any more. And yeah I don't trust facebook that much either but I don't think they'll blatantly ignore the law intentionally.
- dathinab 6y ago
  Well once you log into it with you FB account you also might have signed a (likely illegal) TOS/AGB which allows them just that under some esoteric reason like giving you the more person specific advertisement you want by including all you Oculus interactions. Also don't forget that there is quite a social factor to VR and they are pretty much going in the "single player only usage without FB account direction".