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Facebook released, hands down, the best video conferencing hardware and experience I have ever used. It was at an aggressive price point, and was well built har
by parl_match 3y ago
Facebook released, hands down, the best video conferencing hardware and experience I have ever used. It was at an aggressive price point, and was well built hardware.
The first thing people said when they heard about it was "I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct, but that's the sort of problem Facebook has made for itself.
- csallen 3y agoWhat device are you talking about? The Portal?
- RyanHamilton 3y ago>>"I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct I think there's a non-zero chance if it took off they would measure anonymised metrics. e.g. We noticed 1 user stand up, stop watching TV 4 times to go to the kitchen. We now have websites that record every mouse move to allow replay. We have had phone apps listening in to hear what TV programs are being played currently to gather viewing stats. If there's money to be made it's happened. The webcam gathering anonymised statistics seems likely.
- mcphage 3y ago> The first thing people said when they heard about it was "I don't want Mark Zuckerberg watching me". That's not rational or correct What's not rational about it?
- parl_match 3y agoWell, Portal had an E2EE implementation that was well tested and reviewed, excellent hardware security (including immutable indicators in the form of LEDs of camera activity). It was built exactly like you'd build something to be immune from this criticism. But since Meta was/is a privacy dumpster fire, none of that mattered.
- mcphage 3y agoSince Meta is a privacy fire, being concerned that a product of theirs either is—or will be—used to violate users privacy seems a perfectly rational concern to me.