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"...Meta has updated its privacy policy to include an entry called “Eye Tracking Privacy Notice.” When you open up the page, you’ll find a couple of paragraphs

"...Meta has updated its privacy policy to include an entry called “Eye Tracking Privacy Notice.” When you open up the page, you’ll find a couple of paragraphs dedicated to what data is collected. In it, the company states if you agree to share additional data, Meta will use eye-tracking and other data points “to help Meta personalize your experiences and improve Meta Quest.”

nomel 4y ago
The same type of disclaimer was used for hand tracking, when you used it the first time. And, now there is much better hand tracking. Machine learning requires data. Regardless, these features can be left disabled. With Quest 2 existing, I assume most apps will have a graceful fallback.
- feoren 4y ago
  > Machine learning requires data. If a company wants people to allow data collection on them in order to improve that company's products, out of their sense of goodwill toward the company, maybe they should avoid getting a reputation for abusing any and all data they collect to the detriment of their users to shove ads down their throat and sell or leak said data to unaccountable 3rd parties with even more nefarious purposes like subverting democratic elections or committing genocide. Fucking spare me.
  - nomel 4y ago
    Those with concerns can leave it disabled, as they could with hand tracking. This will spare you from the data collection for eye tracking.
    - JohnFen 4y ago
      Or, better, not use these devices in the first place.
      - nomel 4y ago
        Absolutely! But I think a factual understanding, to make that decision, is important.
- antiviral 4y ago
  That sounds great, but: [1] "...the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or what it’s doing with it, according to a leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard. “We’ve built systems with open borders. The result of these open systems and open culture is well described with an analogy: Imagine you hold a bottle of ink in your hand. This bottle of ink is a mixture of all kinds of user data (3PD, 1PD, SCD, Europe, etc.) You pour that ink into a lake of water (our open data systems; our open culture) … and it flows … everywhere,” the document read. “How do you put that ink back in the bottle? How do you organize it again, such that it only flows to the allowed places in the lake?” [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...
  - nomel 4y ago
    I agree. That’s why I’ll probably be leaving it disabled, just as I did with the hand tracking (besides some quick tests for fun). It’s not being forced, and Fallback will probably be graceful.

nomel 4y ago

The same type of disclaimer was used for hand tracking, when you used it the first time. And, now there is much better hand tracking. Machine learning requires data. Regardless, these features can be left disabled. With Quest 2 existing, I assume most apps will have a graceful fallback.

feoren 4y ago
> Machine learning requires data. If a company wants people to allow data collection on them in order to improve that company's products, out of their sense of goodwill toward the company, maybe they should avoid getting a reputation for abusing any and all data they collect to the detriment of their users to shove ads down their throat and sell or leak said data to unaccountable 3rd parties with even more nefarious purposes like subverting democratic elections or committing genocide. Fucking spare me.
- nomel 4y ago
  Those with concerns can leave it disabled, as they could with hand tracking. This will spare you from the data collection for eye tracking.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    Or, better, not use these devices in the first place.
    - nomel 4y ago
      Absolutely! But I think a factual understanding, to make that decision, is important.
antiviral 4y ago
That sounds great, but: [1] "...the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or what it’s doing with it, according to a leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard. “We’ve built systems with open borders. The result of these open systems and open culture is well described with an analogy: Imagine you hold a bottle of ink in your hand. This bottle of ink is a mixture of all kinds of user data (3PD, 1PD, SCD, Europe, etc.) You pour that ink into a lake of water (our open data systems; our open culture) … and it flows … everywhere,” the document read. “How do you put that ink back in the bottle? How do you organize it again, such that it only flows to the allowed places in the lake?” [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...
- nomel 4y ago
  I agree. That’s why I’ll probably be leaving it disabled, just as I did with the hand tracking (besides some quick tests for fun). It’s not being forced, and Fallback will probably be graceful.