{"id":380160,"date":"2018-10-08T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-new-facebook-portal-camera-follows-you-around-the-room-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:46:55","slug":"prison-planet-com-new-facebook-portal-camera-follows-you-around-the-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-new-facebook-portal-camera-follows-you-around-the-room-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb New Facebook \u2018Portal\u2019 Camera Follows You Around the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Gee, I bet this won\u2019t be used to spy on everyone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>October 8, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/portal1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook has announced the rollout of its new \u2018Portal\u2019 smart speakers, which it brags have a camera that can automatically follow users around the room.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becoming the latest company to enter the smart-speaker market after Amazon Alexa and Google Home, Facebook rolled out a pair of voice-controlled devices that are optimized for video calling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortal\u2019s smart camera follows the action, keeping you in frame and everyone in view,\u201d states the promo for the product.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we&#8217;re excited to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PortalFacebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PortalFacebook<\/a> to everyone. Come say hi and check out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jQuzzc97CK\">https:\/\/t.co\/jQuzzc97CK<\/a> to learn more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzlTQDi6NI\">pic.twitter.com\/PzlTQDi6NI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Facebook (@facebook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/facebook\/status\/1049285127669473280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Undoubtedly wary about fears the technology could be exploited to spy on its users following the company\u2019s data abuse scandals, Facebook has even included a camera cover that can be slipped over the lens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The device also features a single button that instantly disables the camera and the microphones (because you can surely trust Facebook, right?)<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users responded to the video promo with less than sympathetic feedback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo thanks, big brother,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No thanks, big brother<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ColdClaw22 (@ColdClaw22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColdClaw22\/status\/1049288557133815808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFrom the company that sold your phone number to advertisers,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the company that sold your phone number to advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Torch (@torchatlas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torchatlas\/status\/1049289253471969280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnyone still on Facebook, you deserve this,\u201d joked another user.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anyone still on Facebook, you deserve this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crow (@sistercrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sistercrow\/status\/1049290425968644096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another person imagined a future scenario where Mark Zuckerberg would have to apologize for the device spying on millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZuck\u2019s congressional testimony in 2021: \u201cDid we make a few mistakes? Yes we did. Did we spy on a few million people?&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/new-facebook-portal-camera-follows-you-around-the-room.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, I bet this won\u2019t be used to spy on everyone Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comOctober 8, 2018 Facebook has announced the rollout of its new \u2018Portal\u2019 smart speakers, which it brags have a camera that can automatically follow users around the room. Becoming the latest company to enter the smart-speaker market after Amazon Alexa and Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}