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Videogames Spy on You: Always Have... & Forever Will
Concerns are mounting over China making game developers track players with facial recognition in an effort to combat screen addiction among minors, but a new article suggests the industry was always out for your data - all around the globe. (Wired)
“Because video games are systems that translate human inputs into machine-readable data, they have been afforded important status in driving so-called Silicon Valley innovation,” argues Ben Egliston of Queensland University of Technology. "Most notably, we have witnessed a sort of ‘gamification’ of commerce, with slick apps designed to make the act of spending money gratifying,
In the future, Virtual Reality tech might just allow companies to directly track users’ emotions like sadness or joy, studying stimuli response.
It’s all fun and games, until someone’s innermost thoughts are a commodity.
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Concerns are mounting over China making game developers track players with facial recognition in an effort to combat screen addiction among minors, but a new article suggests the industry was always out for your data - all around the globe. (Wired)
“Because video games are systems that translate human inputs into machine-readable data, they have been afforded important status in driving so-called Silicon Valley innovation,” argues Ben Egliston of Queensland University of Technology. "Most notably, we have witnessed a sort of ‘gamification’ of commerce, with slick apps designed to make the act of spending money gratifying,
In the future, Virtual Reality tech might just allow companies to directly track users’ emotions like sadness or joy, studying stimuli response.
It’s all fun and games, until someone’s innermost thoughts are a commodity.
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