This time, she is implicating the Metaverse.
According to a new interview with Politico, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen believes that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for his company is just another excuse to increase the company's already significant surveillance.
Haugen toldPolitico that he was concerned about how many sensors were involved.
The metaverse will involve not just virtual reality headsets but also full-body sensors that track everything from one person to another, based on both official statements from Facebook and patents the company has filed in recent months.
While the current iteration of Facebook's Metaverse and others like it currently feature lackluster graphics, big tech is flooding money into the efforts to them as ubiquitous and profitable as today.
As we've seen with social media and the internet at large, regulation often lags behind innovation, leaving little doubt that Meta and the other companies pumping money into metaverse tech will bring accusations of poor ethics in new domains.
You don't have a choice on whether or not you want Facebook to spy on you.
She is probably a voice worth listening to, given that she risked a lot by taking a huge cache of incriminating documents about the company.
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