Something Personal from the Metaverse: Goals, Topics, and Contextual Factors of Self-Disclosure in Commercial Social VR

Sykownik, Philipp; Maloney, Divine; Freeman, Guo; Masuch, Maic

doi:10.1145/3491102.3502008

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“…[65] ‡ , [20] ‡ , [123], [56], [42], [144], [120], [136], [35], [18], [143], [59], [58] [71], [119] † Evaluations (2) [90], [127] VR Secondary Studies (10) Literature Reviews [28], [37], [32], [61], [33], [115], [137], [62], [46], [92] † An attacker can leverage the associated defense/mechanism for adversarial purposes. ‡ Although the study is defense/attack focused, there is an adversarial/defensive component.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Behaviour. Observing users' avatar likeness, expressed emotions, interactions and reactions to virtual stimuli from other avatars or virtual content can reveal various sensitive human characteristics [63], [119]. In practice, malicious developers may carefully and inconspicuously deliver stimuli in a virtual experience to prompt the user to unconsciously reveal their reaction time, handedness, fitness level, visual and mental acuity, etc.…”

Section: Vr Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Users may also unintentionally or voluntarily selfdisclose such information or additional biographical data (e.g., age, home address, education, social status, work history, etc.) [116], [119], or be deceived by the application or other users to reveal inferable attributes [3]. Ultimately, adversaries can leverage the breadth of harvested information to identify and profile users across VR applications.…”

Section: Vr Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, VR promises applications beyond entertainment: social life, education, healthcare, fitness, military training, architecture, retail, business, productivity (virtual offices), engineering, and manufacturing [90], [22]. Specifically, social VR has recently increased in popularity with titles such as VRChat, whereby users worldwide interact with each other in real-time [119].…”

Section: Vr Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…e.g., by playing a seemingly innocent game [84]. These attacks are partly possible due to VR's unparalleled immersiveness, which can make users more susceptible to selfdisclosure [71], [119], and social engineering [3], [33].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The adoption of virtual reality (VR) technologies has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as companies around the world begin to position the so-called "metaverse" as the next major medium for accessing and interacting with the internet. While consumers have become accustomed to a degree of data harvesting on the web, the real-time nature of data sharing in the metaverse indicates that privacy concerns are likely to be even more prevalent in the new "Web 3.0." Research into VR privacy has demonstrated that a plethora of sensitive personal information is observable by various wouldbe adversaries from just a few minutes of telemetry data. On the other hand, we have yet to see VR parallels for many privacy-preserving tools aimed at mitigating threats on conventional platforms. This paper aims to systematize knowledge on the landscape of VR privacy threats and countermeasures by proposing a comprehensive taxonomy of data attributes, protections, and adversaries based on the study of 68 collected publications. We complement our qualitative discussion with a statistical analysis of the risk associated with various data sources inherent to VR in consideration of the known attacks and defenses. By focusing on highlighting the clear outstanding opportunities, we hope to motivate and guide further research into this increasingly important field.

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