Facebook Portal – Privacy review

Re:Facebook Portal – Privacy review by lucideer on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:15PM (#21650988)

You've looked at the security features (which, as sibling comment points out, is related to, but not the same as privacy), and stopped short of reading the full privacy review.

A lot of commenters have made the same mistake, so perhaps this is useful UX feedback for Mozilla.

The title however, is NOT misleading. To copypaste the parts nobody seems to be reading:

  Can it snoop on me?

  Camera: Yes
  Microphone: Yes
  Tracks Location: Yes


  How does it handle privacy

  How does it share data?
  data about your Portal usage –
  how often you do video calls, what
  apps you open, what features you
  use – can be used to target you with
  advertisements across Facebook. The
  company may also share specific
  demographic and audience engagement
  data with advertisers and analytics
  partners.

  Collects biometrics data? Yes

  User friendly privacy info? No

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Re:Facebook Portal – Privacy review by still_grokking on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @08:26PM (#21653903)

There is even more on that website:

  What could happen if something went wrong

  Facebook has a history of betraying users' privacy and trust. They've faced record fines for this and have been caught
  hiding privacy breaches from their users. This is the starting point for bringing a device with an AI-powered smart camera
  and always listening microphone that is sending data back to Facebook regularly. They also say they do human review of audio
  snippets unless you chose (and take the time to figure out how) to opt out. The question comes down to, does Facebook have
  your best interests at heart when it collects all the data this device is capabal of collecting on you. In the past--from
  Cambridge Analytic and beyond--the answer to that question has way too often been, NO.

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