Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a Cause for Concern

Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C... by wilg on Saturday April 02, 2016 @05:24PM (#11413531)

If the software infrastructure does exist in Minecraft as you say, why isn't anyone mad about it potentially doing exactly what you describe with the actual product placements actually present in Minecraft? (https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/dlc/Minecraft-Xbox-One...)

The reason nobody is mad is because there is no evidence anything shady is going on there. Just like in this case with Oculus.

It's possible for anyone to track pretty much any metric in any software and then analyze it. So saying it's possible doesn't really mean much.

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Re:Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a C... by pdkl95 on Saturday April 02, 2016 @05:43PM (#11413624)

> regularly sends updates back to Facebook’s servers.

That IS evidence of something shady going on. A display device does not need to send data over the network. This is already spyware.

And no, the endermen in Minecraft do not send data back to Mojang when they detect you looking at them. That was obviously a an example of how someone could exploit head tracking data; it would still require exchanging data with Facebook... which the article claims OVRServer_x64.exe does.

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