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'We want to start by saying that these 'attacks' are theoretical and we don't have evidence that anyone is actually using them currently, although it would be quite hard to know if they were,' wrote Nair and Munilla Garrido in an email to The Register.

'The alarming accuracy and covertness of these attacks and the push of data-hungry companies towards metaverse technologies indicate that data collection and inference practices in VR environments will soon become more pervasive in our daily lives,' the paper concludes.

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A related recent study of AR/VR hardware, 'Security and Privacy Evaluation of Popular Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies,' found vendor websites full of potential security vulnerabilities, their hardware and software lacking in multifactor authentication, and their privacy policies obtuse. Not only is privacy an unsolved metaverse issue, but hardware security also leaves something to be desired.

Hence, personal, and sensitive information that will leak through the metaverse in the future will include real-world information about user habits and physiological characteristics.' 'At present, digital technologies can capture data regarding facial expressions, hand movements, and gestures. 'Advanced technologies, especially in VR headsets and smart glasses, will track behavioral and biometric information at a record scale,' explains The Everest Group in its recent report: 'Taming the Hydra: Trust and Safety in the Metaverse'.

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And now that Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and other players see a chance to remake Second Life under their own gatekeeping, corporate consultancies are again reminding clients that privacy will be a problem. Similarly, the trust and safety issues of online social interaction have vexed online services since the days of dial-up modems and bulletin boards, before web browsers were even a thing.

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