As businesses increasingly develop and adopt extended reality (XR) technologies, including virtual (VR), mixed (MR), and augmented (AR) reality, the urgency to consider potential privacy and data protection risks to users and bystanders grows.
Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a global non-profit focused on privacy and data protection, released an infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR technologies may support.
XR technologies are powered by the interplay of multiple sensors, large volumes and varieties of data, and various algorithms and automated systems, such as machine learning (ML). These highly technical relationships enable use cases like shared experiences and expressive avatars. However, these use cases often depend on information that may qualify as sensitive personal data, and the collection, processing, and transfer of this data may pose privacy and data protection risks to both users and bystanders.