Metaverse poses serious privacy risks for users, report warns

The immersive internet experience known as the metaverse will erode users’ privacy unless significant steps are taken to improve and regulate how the technology captures and stores personal data, a new report from New York University argues. The metaverse relies on extended reality (XR) technologies — the umbrella term referring to augmented reality, virtual reality

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