Messenger Rooms and More Ways to Connect When You’re Apart

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21 points·cloakedarbiter··9 comments

The privacy and security infographic doesn’t address what Facebook does with the video.

Finally some reputable competition for Zoom. Will definitely be using these to host my weekly book club discussion meetings once it launches.

If only it was end to end encrypted...

BlueJeans has an end to end encryption...and if your concern is end to end encryption, on what planet are you interested in a facebook product?

Or is this Poe's law and I'm tired.

Because WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted. /s

Warning: Facebook

(Had it said that in the title of the post, I'd have skipped this story.)

HN does show base url fb.com in the title.

Doesn't come through in my RSS reader, unfortunately.

> invite anyone to join your video call, even if they don’t have a Facebook account

Aww, they’re finally getting it. But too late, I assume they’re going to use some kind of cookie/IP matching to determine any and all Facebook accounts of someone that joins one of these rooms.

It’s really annoying, the Facebook Portal device looks genuinely great and something I’d love to use, especially in this quarantine. But I just don’t trust Facebook.

FB already has shadow profiles, because its Like/Share buttons on sites can track people across the web, I wonder if knowing the person's face/voice is useful.

They probably already know if a shadow user is most likely a teenage male (visits gaming sites) or middle-aged lady (hmm, what sites do they visit?). I guess using facial/voice profiling would be a way to confirm the profile.

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