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Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life

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Post by zwaps »

ffpip wrote: post #25

If I see any person wearing these near me or my house, I'm going to personally ensure their headset is shredded to bits. And I'm sure no FB employee will wear this. You can only pay contractors to wear it.

It's ridiculous but I agree. Even if facebook blurs the data, we all know full well that it internally uses the full data and all faces or personal details it captures.

Facebook has demonstrated time and time again that it is an organization that considers itself far above any law or ethical code.

I hope it will be illegal where I live. I don't know if I can afford the legal battle of breaking all devices that approach me, but I feel like someone should do it and fight it out in court.

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Post by strawberrypuree »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #36

This is a hard pass for me. I deleted my Facebook 5 years ago and will never come back. They're a trash company with a trash product.

The fucked up thing is that you can’t opt out. Facebook is capturing the world around you and you can’t stop that. There’s no guarantee that the house you rent next year won’t have been mapped by Facebook. Every store you go to, every theater... it won’t be long until they won’t need you to opt in. There will be a tidy alistproducer2 shapes hole in their data, all ready to infer your movements...that is, of the people wearing them don’t capture you as part their distributed data collection.

This is not hyperbole. Facebook already lays claim to the behavioral data of non users, creating shadow profiles ready to materialize should you become a user. This an extension of that.

We are sleepwalking into a dystopia.

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Post by barry27 »

pritovido wrote: post #26

That is something that must be done, but not by facebook. It should be done by public and private institutions with a clear control of the data real access and ownership. The problem with cloud providers is that you can not control them. They can tell you nobody but you access your data, but they can give data access to the US gobertment or their employers or their automatic surveillance and intelligence gathering so…

Why "must" it be done? It's just more pointless technology tricks for the sake of it.

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Post by appleflaxen »

goatinaboat wrote: post #19
appleflaxen wrote: post #12

regardless of the functionality, I cannot ethically support or use facebook, instagram, or whatsapp.

regardless of the functionality, I cannot ethically support or use facebook, instagram, or whatsapp. The problem is that they still use you. If your email address was ever in a contacts list uploaded to them, they have a handle on you. They are tracking you on every website (apart maybe from this one) and have constructed a shadow profile for you. It's the same problem with Google, you can try to avoid them but if an…

You are 100% correct.

It's a really terrible state of affairs.

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