*Privacy Not Included review: Oculus Quest 2 (original) (raw)

Can it snoop on me?

Camera

Microphone

Tracks location

Facebook account is required

What data does the company collect?

Personal

The name, email address, and phone number

Contacts (optional, when you share content)

How does the company use this data?

Facebook's Oculus receives information about you from third parties, including third-party apps, developers, other online content providers, and marketing partners that provide information.

Oculus shares information with related companies, including the Facebook Companies. Facebook shares data with numerous third parties such as partners who use their analytics services, advertisers, measurement partners, partners offering goods and services in Facebook products, vendors and service providers, researchers and academics, law enforcement, and legal requests.

How can you control your data?

Facebook's Oculus stores Oculus data that identifies you until it is no longer necessary to provide Oculus Products or your Oculus account is deleted, whichever comes first, unless retention of the data for a longer period is justified in order to comply with law or recordkeeping obligations, to respond to a legal request, prevent harm, or to improve Oculus safety, integrity and security features.

When you delete your account, Oculus deletes things you have posted and information about apps and entitlements you have downloaded, and you will not be able to recover that information later. Information that others have shared about you is not part of your account and will not be deleted when you delete your account. To delete your account at any time, or to learn more about deleting your account, please visit the Privacy Center.

What is the company’s known track record of protecting users’ data?

Bad

In April 2021, it was reported that there was a personal data leak of about 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses.

In August 2019, Bloomberg reported that Facebook hired contractors to transcribe audio messages users sent through Messenger and Facebook confirmed the report.

Can this product be used offline?

Yes

If using an app that works offline.

User-friendly privacy information?

Yes

Detailed Privacy FAQ & settings are provided

Links to privacy information

Manages vulnerabilities

Yes

Does the product use AI?

Yes

Is this AI untrustworthy?

Can’t Determine

What kind of decisions does the AI make about you or for you?

Oculus Insight computes an accurate and real-time position for the headset and controllers every millisecond in order to translate your precise movements into VR

Is the company transparent about how the AI works?

Yes

Does the user have control over the AI features?

Yes