Horrible, low-quality virtual selfies will never be the biggest problem facing the metaverse: data privacy will be. So we’re immensely thankful that researchers are already digging into how, exactly, we might be able to prevent companies from tracking us through the complexities of metaverse protocols.
Two researchers from the University of California, Berkley — Vivek Nair and Dawn Song — along with a third, Gonzalo Munilla Garrido of the Technical University of Munich, this month published a paper detailing a tool they’re calling MetaGuard. Like your web browser’s incognito mode, MetaGuard would block companies from following your digital footprints.
