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Invasive surveillance: Are regulators ready to deal with Facebook’s ‘metaverse’?

As Australian lawmakers struggle to regulate social media amid an onslaught of misinformation, conspiracies and extremist content, they are already facing the dawn of big tech’s latest push to make an even more invasive technology a part of everyday life.

Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with the metaverse – a nebulous concept grounded in the idea that the next generation of the internet will enable the real physical world and virtual worlds to seamlessly converge – is underpinned by an unspoken promise of mass data harvesting and new frontiers of highly targeted advertising.


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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/te...ith-facebook-s-metaverse-20211101-p594ys.html
 
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Great article, thanks for posting. I worry a lot if corporate interests dominate development of the metaverse. I wish that a nonprofit open source consortium was in lead, with focus on education and development.
 
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If you guys haven't watched Ready Player One yet, you definitely should. The bad guys in the movie want to flood the metaverse with popup ads.
 
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