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Sleepy_Tortoise t1_isbpybe wrote

Reply to comment by MicroSofty88 in Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face - Cameras inside the device that track eye and face movements can make an avatar’s expressions more realistic, but they raise new privacy questions. by speckz

The accelerometer is actually sensitive enough to give a lot more data than you think. It can tell some medical info and whether you're sober or drunk when your phone is in your pocket by picking up signals in the way you walk, and some accelerometers are sensitive enough to pick up the sound vibrations of spoken conversations and discern words. This was all in a cyber security research paper and these things were actually done and proven possible. Getting permission from your phone to use this data vs microphone or camera or something more conspicuous is way easier too.

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OmNomCakes t1_iscyo9e wrote

Exactly. The light sensitivity on your phone can tell enough to be a major security risk if someone was malicious. The accelerometer would tell people your habits down to creepy levels. But God damn if an avatar in a game makes the faces I do AFTER I choose to turn a setting on myself. XD

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