[Skybird]

There ain't no such thing as "privacy settings". Thats just code to give oyu a message on a screen, nothing more. The privacy gets raped at the very profound level of the operation system Windows/Chrome OS/Android already. Its in principle deception and dummy switches. There is zero altenmrtaive to pulling the plug and physically interrupting the wire, if you really want to try defending your privacy. PHYSICAL is the word to watch out for. Only naive people trust in software settings.

I do not trust even the Oculus software suite already. You can prevent Oculus Home from automatically launchzing (by only allowing the Adminstrator to launch the exe), and youj can pull all plugs of the headset andf the cameras - but then you still see that on booting, Oculus processes get launched automaticalöly nevertheless. Why? What for? You then can use a separate 3rd party tool to switch them off, and make two of three such processes disappear from the list of active tasks, yes - but again the question: why is Facebook so eager to have its software (Oculus is owned by Facebook) running, to have any attached hardware with cameras and microphone, adressable automatically without the user being able to prevent this by normal, ordinary ways? Task monitor shows that their is data tranbsmitted even if the headset is not being used, and has been switched off separately. Wowh, I say. I had emailed them once, earlier this year, and asked why Oculus software remains active evenm if I try to shut it down. They said the software sguts downb, only a tiny piec eof code remains present in memory. They did not explain why this must be so. I then asked them what part of my question exactly gave them problems to understand. they said that theior customers are very satisfied with their services and that the dspoftware allows me full degree of freedom of control. I finally send a third mail, asking whether there is a problem with my use of English language. They did not reply.

I now could ask myself whether I would want to trust their precious words. I skip that step. Only a fool would take their words for real. They - Oculus - are Facebook. Thats all one needs to know.

We have a proverb in German: Trust is nice. Control is better. I will never trust companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and the likes. Their countless offences are too countless indeed as if they could not be intentional and systematical.

And then there is the data people give carelessly away voluntarily. Well, that cannot be helped as long as they do not feel the pain from getting bitten. From a therapeutical and social-philosophical point of view I wish that many, many people get hit by disaster so that the lesson to be learned sinks deep into the collective memory.