In an interview with Politico, Haugen said Meta has made \"very grandiose promises\" about how the metaverse is secure by design, but that if they didn’t commit to openness, access, and other accountability measures, \"I can imagine just seeing a replay of all the problems you see on Facebook.”
For the company's vision of the metaverse to become a reality, so to speak, intrusive hardware such as sensors, microphones and cameras would have to be installed in homes and maybe even public spaces to record data and replicate it in the digital world.
\"I'm super concerned about how many sensors are involved. When we do the metaverse, we have to put lots more microphones from Facebook; lots more other kinds of sensors into our homes,\" Haugen told Politico. \"You don't really have a choice now on whether or not you want Facebook spying on you at home. We just have to trust the company to do the right thing.\"
According to a CNBC report, Meta intends to take a 47.5% cut on the sale of digital assets on its virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds, which is integral to the company’s plan for the metaverse.
Before becoming a whistleblower and bringing Facebook into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Haugen worked as a product manager at the social media<\/a> company. Last year, she gave The Wall Street Journal access to tens of thousands of internal Facebook papers, which came to be known as The Facebook Files<\/a>.
She said at the time that Facebook “prioritises profit over the well-being of children and all users” and that the firm had overlooked and dismissed the majority of its employees' complaints about content.
In October 2021 Haugen testified before a US Senate subcommittee, telling lawmakers, \"I'm here today because I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy… We must demand Facebook make changes.”
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