By MARK SCOTT
04/12/2022 04:10 PM EDT
Presented by CTIA – The Wireless Association
With help from Konstantin Kakaes and Derek Robertson
Frances Haugen sparked outrage last year when she released thousands of documents that exposed Facebook’s failure to act when confronted with its users’ harmful behavior. Now, the former Facebook product manager says she’s worried about how those values will translate into the so-called metaverse, which the company, rebranded as Meta, hopes to have a central role in building.
"They've made very grandiose promises about how there's safety-by-design in the metaverse," Haugen told me in an interview. "But if they don't commit to transparency and access and other accountability measures, I can imagine just seeing a repeat of all the harms you currently see on Facebook."
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For the metaverse to really work, at least the 3D-goggles version that Mark Zuckerberg has been promoting, it will mean installing sensors and microphones — in homes, offices and maybe even public spaces — to replicate our every move and collect massive amounts of data to create digital twins of real-world...
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