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Facebook hardware in my devices that claims it’s there to protect my privacy. What’s the catch? Firmware based “anonymous” telemetry?
by transcriptase 3y ago
Facebook hardware in my devices that claims it’s there to protect my privacy.
What’s the catch? Firmware based “anonymous” telemetry?
- serf 3y agopersonally I hope that the facebook altruism as of late has been a market effect from their needing to compete with other mega-corps, and that it comes with no catch or ill-will because it's simply there to be 'the other'. it's probably a naive hope, but I hope it's right. (i've never trusted FB further than I could throw their company, so this is a big leap of faith for me.)
- not2b 3y agoNot Facebook hardware in this case, it would be their model running on QCOM hardware. If people can write apps in which the model is used locally and no information goes to the net (to Meta, Google, or anyone else) that's a huge privacy win. Presumably Meta would make money by licensing it to Qualcomm and getting some amount per device. The key issue would be whether local-only apps can be written, or if Qualcomm and Meta would insist on seeing what the user is up to and would try to monetize that.