The first step in providing data security and privacy on a metaverse is building privacy-preserving technologies from scratch. Privacy in the metaverse needs to be heavily considered and protected, by users as well as companies, who need to begin to incorporate privacy by design as they design technologies that we are so dependent upon. All of these things combined will go a long way to creating a metaverse that is secure, privacy-sensitive, and user-regulated. The technologies used within a metaverse will extend current, extensive data collection and usage.

As reported last year, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) continues to be the new global standard and adhering to it will make compliance with future privacy laws much easier and more efficient. But what does that mean for Data Protection and how it looks to the world in 2022?