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Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD by skyyler on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @07:03PM (#32245167)
Why are you imagining petty voyeurism? I'm imagining more like "scan the room for products recently purchased at non-amazon retailers" or "identify how many worker-consumers are in the room and how engaged they are with The Product"

Data, not video or pictures.

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Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD by dmix on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:57AM (#32249393)
I bought all of those products with credit cards, usually on Amazon. I highly doubt that's useful information for FB to mine (and it would destroy their product line if it came out they were doing that).

I just made a mental list of all of the items in my office room where I use Quest and the face I own a Macbook and some high end speakers/chair/desk/monitor and an iPhone is really not that interesting to anyone.

I'm way more concerned by my mobile phone or browser where I actual engage with personal information.

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Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD by CursedUrn on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:06PM (#32245561)
Petty voyeurism will happen (we've seen enough stories about this with Amazon Alexa) but I agree that's nowhere near the main problem with this kind of technology.
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