Advocates push privacy framework for extended-reality industry

Biometrics-heavy augmented-reality could be nearing a Wild West period, when development outpaces regulations or even commonsense safety policies.

But it doesn't have to go that route and, indeed, it shouldn't, according to U.S. think-tank and advocacy the Future of Privacy Forum. Biometrics scanning, monitoring and analysis are going to be more deeply intrinsic to extended-reality than to almost any other post-2000 information technology.

The Washington, D.C., group is pushing its idea of a risk framework for the growing industry.

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