Meta has just rolled out an update to the privacy policy surrounding its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. This update provides users with greater transparency and control over the data being collected from them. This amendment provides the company with greater latitude to store data unrelated to transit. This data is key to ARGO now being able to further train its artificial intelligence models. Customers of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses should all be proactively examining their privacy settings in light of this new feature.
The new privacy policy release comes as Meta’s data practices are already the subject of intense scrutiny. The company has a track record of collecting massive amounts of user data, which scrutiny over privacy and data protection. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses don’t constantly record everything around the wearer. The new policy is a big boost to Meta’s abilities to use data.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses are indeed facing a pivotal moment. These changes signal far-reaching repercussions for data privacy across the technology sector. Last week, Amazon made a seismic announcement. Moving forward, all Echo commands will be processed in the cloud, removing the ability for consumers to have voice data that is more privacy-protective processed locally. This move is part of a larger trend in the tech industry. These companies desire more control over user data, which more often than not comes at the expense of privacy.
Meta’s privacy policy for its smart glasses gives insight into the use of voice controls. It describes how user data will be handled. Consumers are increasingly concerned about data privacy practices. This increasing consciousness may inspire people to reconsider how comfortable they should be with tech that hugs their private data.
As we all know, Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Meta. As a data privacy leader for his company, he’s on the front lines of data privacy in our ever-evolving digital landscape. Amanda Silberling, a senior writer at TechCrunch, has been ringing alarm bells about all of these big moves for the past year. Home to the latest in technology and culture, TechCrunch gives readers an inside look at how emerging technologies are affecting the world as we know it.
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