The Metaverse Wasn’t the Problem
Meta’s metaverse ambitions are now in full retreat. Yesterday, Meta announced that it would be shuttering Horizon Worlds, its flagship VR app and the...
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Google’s Privacy Protestations
I’ve been disappointed by how little interest the remedies portion of this antitrust trial has received within the privacy community. Privacy, data protection, and...
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Privacy Twofer on Tech Policy Press
I recently contributed two pieces to Tech Policy Press on the state of privacy rights in the United States:
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“Faces and Places”: Data Portability in the Metaverse
To mark the Digital Markets Act coming into effect, the Data Transfer Initiative hosted a full-day summit on the future of data portability. I...
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Data Portability and the Metaverse – Q&A
Ahead of the Data Transfer Initiative’s DMA-celebrating portability summit, I participated in a Q&A with DTI’s Policy Director, Delara Derakhshani, to talk about how...
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Wired: “Pretty Soon, Your VR Headset Will Know Exactly What Your Bedroom Looks Like”
With Meta positioning its Quest 3 as a “mixed reality” device, I’ve been telling anyone I can that there’s a major policy discussion to...
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Brookings: Data-Driven Video Games
Whenever I see colleagues start contributing to some online publication, it tends to trigger in me a desire to write something of my own....
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Safe and Secure VR: Policy Issues Impacting Kids' Use of Immersive Tech
After Oculus Quest commercials blanketed the airwaves before the holidays, a number of folks at Common Sense Media raised concerns about Facebook’s take on...
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Project Aria and Mapping Augmented Reality
On the heels of Facebook’s announcement that Reality Labs would be deploying smart glasses to both assist in mapping and create “digital twin” of...
Read MoreSome Initial Ideas on Improving Privacy in AR, VR, and XR
The time to begin developing XR privacy guidelines and controls is now. Growing numbers of consumers are worried about how data collected via VR headsets...
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