Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations

Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by jasmer on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:21PM (#34056377)

Exactly. It's extremely intrusive to have some random fool listening in on my own household, when I may be unaware. People have no idea how technology works, even smart people.

Default mic/camera etc. off - they can provided a nice little popup and have us turn it on.

Because companies will always push boundaries and cross the line, we need legislation unfortunately and can only hope the legislators don't fuck it up.

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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by robswc on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:02PM (#34061014)

This I can get behind... but I do always go to the options and turn on "push to talk."

I don't like the idea of legislation requiring such a thing though.

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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by jasmer on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:00PM (#34069620)

We need legislation because PM's pushed to profit by CEO's just cross the line far too often. It's hard to explain but when you see it, you understand. It's the game we create. We don't even need to point the finger, because usually it's not 'someone's fault' is just stuff that happens. Many of these decisions are made even without deliberation.

It'd be nice to have 'best practices' oversight instead of lawyers but we're not that sophisticated yet.

And we don't really have a way of contemplating 'scale' aka once companies reach a certain size, their impact is greater and we have to be more careful.

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