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Oculus's services are always on and you should be concerned
2016-04-01 02:55:05 Post No. 53799153
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Oculus's services are always on and you should be concerned
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2016-04-01 02:55:05
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>When you install Oculus Home a background service with full permissions is spun up and never spun down. This service is used to detect when the rift is turned on so it can automatically launch the rift, but it is also used to constantly communicate with facebook servers.
>Now this should be concerning, if you look at Oculus' privacy agreement you will find these:
>>Information Automatically Collected About You When You Use Our Services. We also collect information automatically when you use our Services. Depending on how you access and use our Services, we may collect information such as: Information about your interactions with our Services, like information about the games, content, apps or other experiences you interact with, and information collected in or through cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies (additional information about these technologies is available at https://www.oculus.com/en-us/cookie...r-technologies/)
>So considering Facebook used to allow messanger to passively listen to your conversations using your phone's mic so it could better target ads
, this should be concerning. A bit further in Oculus's privacy agreement you will find:
>>How do we use information? We use the information to do a number of things that help us provide our Services to you and our partners. Here are some examples: To market to you. We use the information we collect to send you promotional messages and content and otherwise market to you on and off our Services. We also use this information to measure how users respond to our marketing efforts.
>Seems pretty obvious what the end goal is (built in microphone into the rift).
>tl;dr: When you install Oculus home and agree to the terms of service you are agreeing to let Facebook use any and all information it can glean from your machine/rift/microphone to better target ads/sell to third parties.
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