Metaverse Technology Opens Up a Wider World of Privacy Concerns

The expansion of digital experiences accessible through immersive headsets and related technologies is generating concerns about the information that’s collected on people who wear the devices, and how to protect it.

The metaverse promises to bring innovation to sectors from education to e-commerce, with the potential to generate up to $5 trillion in economic impact by 2030, according to a June report by management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Adopters of extended reality, or XR, technologies face the challenge of balancing the promise of its many uses with the possible privacy pitfalls of its many data points.

Devices such as ...