Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower at large, has now turned her attention to the “Metaverse,” which is a place where people can talk to each other. She is worried about how Meta will keep private information and information that is very important to her safe.
Frances Haugen, the woman who leaked information about Facebook, said in a new interview that Meta’s version of the Metaverse will just do the same things that Facebook has done in the past, which will make the Metaverse even worse.
“They’ve made a lot of big promises about how the Metaverse is safe because it was built that way. But if they don’t agree to be more open and accountable, I can imagine seeing the same things that happened on Facebook again.
This is what Haugen did in 2021. He leaked a lot of internal documents from Facebook to the SEC and the Wall Street Journal. As a worker for the company, she has been worried about privacy issues and how the company could get access to all of the information about how people interact with the Metaverse.
“I’m very worried about how many sensors there are.” When we do the Metaverse, we have to put a lot more Facebook microphones into our homes, as well as a lot more other kinds of sensors into them.
Now, you can’t really choose whether or not you want Facebook to spy on you at home. Just trust the company.
Haugen isn’t the only person who cares. According to a recent survey, 70% of people say they don’t trust Meta to keep their information safe.
As the CEO of ProtonMail, Andy Yen is also worried about big tech companies like Meta having too much power. Proton, his own company, will only be able to stay alive with the help of big tech companies like Apple and Google.
With no legal or financial consequences, tech giants could get rid of us from the Internet today, he told the crowd.
asked Newsweek last year if Meta was “building a new infrastructure where they could control everything.” You are now in their world, on their devices, and on their platform. “
Yen said that people should not trust Meta with power like that because of their history. Promises about privacy in the Metaverse aren’t worth anything unless Meta changes its business model, Yen said.
At the end of the day, their business model is all about taking your data and making money from it. People always say things that don’t line up with what they have to do to make money.
Data is gathered.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit group that fights for people’s rights in the digital world. Virtual reality headsets and other wearables will make getting and keeping track of data easier than ever before, says Yen, the company that makes them. They said this in December:
Sometimes, companies that have a history of putting profit before privacy do this data harvesting. It sets the stage for new invasions into our lives and even our thoughts in ways we’ve never seen before.
A group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is worried that the data they collect and use for targeted advertising will be turned into “biometric psychography.” This means that our deepest desires and inclinations will be for sale. Once all the information has been gathered, third parties could make money from the data even if we didn’t know about it or agree to it.
It is called the China syndrome.
While the Metaverse may seem like something that will happen in the future, people in China are living it every day in a different way.
In China, WeChat is the social media platform of choice for people who want to stay in touch with friends. It has more than one billion people who use it. There are 850 million people who are active users of the service. For the first time, the app is collecting information about people in China in a way that has never been done before. Every word, picture, and video that is on it can be watched by the Chinese government, as well.
People who work for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) had a lot of bad things to say about WeChat before the Winter Olympic Games this year. RSF told journalists to be careful when they were reporting from China. They said, “RSF advises journalists who travel to China not to download apps that could be used by the Chinese government to track them.” These were WeChat and TikTok.
I imagine having that kind of power over the metaverse would be really cool.
