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A comment on Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts.

Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by lukeschlather on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:27AM (#25373986)
The trouble is, this is really just them being honest. Within 6 months of acquiring Oculus they started pulling in data from their Oculus accounts and associating that with Facebook profiles based on email or whatever identifiers they can use. Requiring Facebook accounts is just being transparent about the fact that Facebook maintains a profile for you which crosses all of their systems whether you have accounts or not.

I hope the EU addresses the root of the issue and starts cracking down on the shadow profile stuff.

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by Tactic on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:45AM (#25375535)
Counter-point; that was a one-way street. Data was potentially fed from Oculus to Facebook. Now, what you do on Facebook can impact your Oculus use. Get banned on Facebook and lose access to your purchased software on Oculus effectively making your device useless.

So now it is worse.

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by _b4ut on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:28AM (#25374684)
so, you mean a thief who goes to the police to honestly declare what she stole should be entitled to keep the stuff?
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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by laumars on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:53AM (#25374991)
That wasn’t the GPs point. The GP was saying that the real root of the problem isn’t Oculus’s mandatory FB login but rather that FB is allowed to harvest and link profiles across multiple devices to begin with.
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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by pyhtel on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:51AM (#25374966)
He didn't say FB shouldn't be hit with an antitrust probe, in your analogy it would be actively tracking thieves down instead of waiting for the thief to voluntarily turn himself in
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