Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023
by ajkdhcb2 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:22PM
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https://www.engadget.com/2019-03-21-preshow-free-movie-ticke...
>The company has developed a way to track your gaze to make sure you're actually looking at the PreShow commercial. The app also places a green border around the edges of your screen to confirm that it sees you. If you look away for too long, or leave your seat, the ad automatically pauses and you'll get a red border around your screen.
This horrific shit is all ready to go, I think there is no hyperbole or irrational slippery slope at all
Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023
by lp0_on_fire on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:10PM
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"They aren't requiring a network interface to collect telemetry - that's a slippery slope" was a common refrain a decade ago, too.
Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023
by afavour on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:29PM
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Yes.. and they weren't requiring a network interface in order to collect telemetry. They were requiring a network interface in order for Windows laptop purchasers to know that they'd be able to connect to the internet.
It kind of is, though. It's a classic slippery slope fallacy. Collecting user telemetry and spying on users via webcams you force hardware manufacturers to install in machines are miles, miles, miles apart from each other. I'm not trying to defend MS's telemetry collection here, I don't like it either. But the extrapolation is hyperbolic.