What ifthe Vision Propresented privacy risks? This is the point of view defended by Geoffrey A. Fowler, our colleague fromWashington Postin a fascinating analysis.
Risks for our personal data?
The journalist explains that the new headset coming out this week in the United States integrates 2 depth sensors, 6 microphones and 12 cameras. The idea being to follow the user continuously and observe the rooms where they are in three dimensions. It's the most personal data-collecting device ever designed. And if Apple offers real protections, it does not answer all the questions asked according to the editorialist.
Quoted in the article, Cooper Quintin, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, asks:“Should we, as a society, really jump headfirst into virtual reality and augmented reality in our lives before we have strong privacy legislation? Data brokers already have way too much knowledge of everything I do. I don’t want them to have that level of knowledge.”
In fact, developers need to obtain a lot of data to take into account the world around us and make their applications work. These concerns about the information collected are a little less critical in the European Union where the GDPR is much more protective of data.
Apple has, however, established fairly precise rules. It is therefore prohibited forThird-party Visio Pro appsaccess the camera to capture photos and videos. Enough to prevent certain intrusive uses.
Trust the developers, really?
However, the device draws a map of the spaces around the user. The article cites the example of a living room where one could see the size of the TV (which says a lot about a consumer's budget), or even detect a cradle, a wheelchair, or equipment for consume drugs. So much information that data brokers and authorities would love.
Apple warns developers on its site:“It is your responsibility to protect all data collected by your application and to use it in a responsible and privacy-respecting manner”. We are therefore forced to trust them.
Finally, the journalist explains that the way we move provides important information to identify a person, their emotions and their desires. On this specific point, Apple has not provided a response.
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