Author: Andrea Vittorio
Publisher: Bloomberg Law
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: The following news article describes how metaverse technology is struggling to strike the balance between innovation and privacy concerns. These concerns have rarely been problems before, such as tracking a person’s movement and surroundings, which necessitates some framework. Considering children and the sick are two sizable audiences of this type of technology, privacy and explainability of their algorithms are both paramount. They can predict hand size and head movements from activity, market to individual personalities from interaction time with virtual ads, and establish proxies based on how a person acts and moves. A definition must be incorporated as soon as possible because right now, many of the policies are uncharted and unofficial. Giving explicit privacy notices may help, but the debate rages on.