On June 3, 2024, the first expert workshop took place as part of the BMBF-funded project “Privacy in the Metaverse” (PRiME). Experts from various fields, such as authorities, science, civil society and practice, were invited and discussed with the project's consortium partners, ConPolicy, the University of Bonn, the University of Göttingen and the University of Erlangen. The workshop was held in the immersive world of INVRTUAL and thus enabled not only the substantive discussion of privacy issues in the metaverse but also the actual experience of the metaverse in an individually designed, immersive venue.
The overarching goal of the workshop was to discuss the challenges of the metaverse for data protection and the personal rights of users together with the experts and to evaluate solutions presented by the research consortium.
The next step in the project will be empirical research.
You can find out more about the PRiME project here.