This early-stage work presents the first step in designing for user privacy and data privacy awareness in the metaverse from an ethical standpoint. The goal of this research is to document and analyze the privacy challenges that come from a prevalent metaverse application, align them with the related literature, and present an initial set of ethical design suggestions that can mitigate these privacy challenges.
The project was funded by internal SEP funding through the Research Council of Norway. The following SINTEF employees worked on the project: Ophelia Prillard, Costas Boletsis, and Shukun Tokas.
The user onboarding for the Meta Horizon Workrooms application has been recorded as a user interface walkthrough, and the videos can be seen followingly. Video 1 presents a ”privacy-unaware” user journey (i.e., the user immediately consents to all data collection), while Video 2 shows a ”privacy-aware” user journey, where the user opens the privacy notices and chooses not to share data. The purpose of showing both onboarding processes is to provide readers with more complete documentation of the user onboarding process. It also provides insight into how these two onboarding journeys can differ.
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