Yes. You read well, Facebook is working on a smartwatch. The various privacy scandals that have surrounded Mark Zuckerberg's company in recent years, along with the vast amount of data it collects, have put the company in the crosshairs of millions of users.
Although it is true that Facebook is the most used social network in the world, the number of users who have become aware of what is privacy have increased, but since there are no alternatives, they continue to use it on a daily basis. That if, only the platform.
Facebook Portal
A couple of years ago he launched Facebook Portal, a device similar to Amazon's Echo Show with screen, camera and obviously a microphone.
The launch of this device came a few months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a scandal that seriously affected their sales at the time and that due to the company's practice, they continue to do so, since no one trusts that the microphone can actually be disconnected (It incorporates a physical button to deactivate it).
Facebook wants to do business with our health
No, thanks. When you reach a certain age, you avoid going to the doctor at all, because you always put yourself in the worst case, since he will tell you that you have some key. If I don't want to give that information to my doctor, Does Facebook think I'm going to give it to them?
Facebook can sing mass, will say that health data is private and that they will never be used to target advertising. Yes… already… tell me another one. It seems that the American company does not learn and want to re-launch a device to collect even more information from users, a device that would hit the market in 2022 and would do so with Wear OS.
The technology currently available in smartwatches makes it possible to carry out electrocardiograms (ECG), measure blood oxygen levels in addition to monitoring our heartbeat and it is expected that it will also be able to measure blood sugar soon. Would you give this information to a stranger to make money from it?
