People are going to shit on this because it's coming from Facebook (pardon me, Meta). And you know what? They're right to. Facebook has proven time and time again that it's wildly disinterested in being a good actor; this is like the man who burgled your house last year coming over to sell you a security system, promising he's gone clean.<p>Heck, maybe this works wonderfully, and there's a mathematical proof of it. But if you shit in my well, you don't get to sell me bottled water.
The very first sentence in the article:<p>> Data minimization — collecting the minimum amount of data required to support our services — is one of our core principles at Meta as we continue developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).<p>Who do these people think they're fooling? Quit it with the bullshit. Stop trying to make metaverse happen, stop trying to fake it til you make it, it's patronizing, it's off putting, it's condescending, you're disconnected from reality if you think anyone in the universe believes that sentence.
It seems that the use-cases of de-identified authentication are very limited and apply mostly for situations where you don‘t need authentication at all by just stopping the data collection?!