https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjke5/facebook-knows-you-dont-want-to-trust-its-portal-camera

Less than two weeks after it announced a hack affecting 50 million users, Facebook has launched a webcam-enabled smart speaker called “Portal.” Despite a deluge of security issues over the past two years, the social media giant is hoping to convince people to put an internet-connected camera that tracks their movement throughout a room in their homes.

But, it seems the company is also keenly aware of how ridiculous this sounds. In its launch materials, Facebook put privacy and security front and center, focusing on the many steps the company took in making Portal as secure and non-creepy as possible. This includes simple hardware designs such as a camera cover, which you can slide closed when you’re not using the webcam, to more technical design features, such as having the AI that runs the Portal embedded in the device, rather than processed on Facebook’s servers.