Metaverse poses ‘unprecedented’ privacy threats, report says
NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights stresses the need for a comprehensive privacy law, warning of significant privacy threats in the burgeoning metaverse. Despite all of its benefits, the next iteration of the internet poses “unprecedented” risks of the “potential erosion of privacy” and the proliferation of abuse in virtual environments. According to a report from NYU’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (CBHR), experiences in virtual reality (VR) may result in profound and lasting psychological harm. The scheme of how VR devices collect data from a user | Source: NYU Stern The report says the main issue is not how emerging devices like VR headsets work but how they use the collected data from users. For instance, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley and Unanimous AI have recently found that even the most basic VR headset with a motion tracker can collect lots of data from a user, including their identity,...