Editing Metaverse (section)

=== Privacy ===
[[Information privacy]] is an area of concern for the metaverse because related companies will likely collect users' personal information through interactions and [[biometric]] data from wearable virtual and augmented reality devices.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Lik-Hang |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355172308 |title=All One Needs to Know about Metaverse: A Complete Survey on Technological Singularity, Virtual Ecosystem, and Research Agenda |last2=Braud |first2=Tristan |last3=Zhou |first3=Pengyuan |last4=Wang |first4=Lin |last5=Xu |first5=Dianlei |last6=Lin |first6=Zijun |last7=Kumar |first7=Abhishek |last8=Bermejo |first8=Carlos |last9=Hui |first9=Pan |date=October 11, 2021 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.11200.05124/8 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2110.05352}}</ref> Meta Platforms (previously Facebook) is planning on employing targeted advertising within their metaverse, raising further worries related to the spread of misinformation and loss of personal privacy.<ref name="O'Brian-Chan"/> In 2021, David Reid of [[Liverpool Hope University]] argued the amount of data collection in the metaverse would be greater than that on the internet stating "If you think about the amount of data a company could collect on the [[World Wide Web]] right now, compared to what it could collect with the metaverse, there is just no comparison."<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 11, 2021 |title=Who is Going to Police the 'Metaverse'? |url=https://www.hope.ac.uk/news/allnews/who-is-going-to-police-the-metaverse.html |access-date=January 19, 2022 |website=www.hope.ac.uk}}</ref> In fact, the current metaverse technology is very immature. Abdulsattar Jaber, a professor at Iraq's [[Middle Technical University]], found that the new technology used by the metaverse may cause many problems related to the security and privacy of system users.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abdulsattar Jaber |first=Tanya |date=July 11, 2022 |title=Security Risks of the Metaverse World |url=https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jim/article/view/33187 |journal=International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies |volume=16 |issue=13 |pages=4–14 |doi=10.3991/ijim.v16i13.33187 |s2cid=250467972 |issn=1865-7923|doi-access=free }}</ref>