Users' privacy in the Second Life Library

Deng, Xianjun; Ruan, Jianhai

doi:10.1109/itime.2009.5236404

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“…While personal privacy leakage is already a prevalent risk in the virtual world, the use of digital bodies may further exacerbate it. Deng and Ruan (2009) pointed out that users' personal information such as name and address might be required in registration for creating an avatar, as many social VR's policies oppose anonymous use. Besides, as the avatar is "an important extension of the user's own privacy and identity with implication for intimacy and dignity," in-world privacy concerns are also being raised as users' daily activities will often be mirrored in their avatars (Deng and Ruan, 2009).…”

Section: Revealing Personal Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Deng and Ruan (2009) pointed out that users' personal information such as name and address might be required in registration for creating an avatar, as many social VR's policies oppose anonymous use. Besides, as the avatar is "an important extension of the user's own privacy and identity with implication for intimacy and dignity," in-world privacy concerns are also being raised as users' daily activities will often be mirrored in their avatars (Deng and Ruan, 2009). Falk et al ( 2021) have proposed such an example: a de-anonymization attack that by just secretly recording the movement of an avatar and mapping the correlations with the movement of the user in real life using a bespoke agglomerative clustering algorithm, the identity of the user might be revealed with an accuracy of 89.60%.…”

Section: Revealing Personal Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital body, identity and privacy in social virtual reality: A systematic review

Lin

Latoschik

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities, social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR can in general be of almost any conceivable appearance, individualized or even personalized avatars bearing users’ likeness recently became an interesting research topic. Such digital bodies show a great potential to enhance the authenticity of social VR citizens and increase the trustworthiness of interpersonal interaction. However, using such digital bodies might expose users to privacy and identity issues such as identity theft: For instance, how do we know whether the avatars we encounter in the virtual world are who they claim to be? Safeguarding users’ identities and privacy, and preventing harm from identity infringement, are crucial to the future of social VR. This article provides a systematic review on the protection of users’ identity and privacy in social VR, with a specific focus on digital bodies. Based on 814 sources, we identified and analyzed 49 papers that either: 1) discuss or raise concerns about the addressed issues, 2) provide technologies and potential solutions for protecting digital bodies, or 3) examine the relationship between the digital bodies and users of social VR citizens. We notice a severe lack of research and attention on the addressed topic and identify several research gaps that need to be filled. While some legal and ethical concerns about the potential identity issues of the digital bodies have been raised, and despite some progress in specific areas such as user authentication has been made, little research has proposed practical solutions. Finally, we suggest potential future research directions for digital body protection and include relevant research that might provide insights. We hope this work could provide a good overview of the existing discussion, potential solutions, and future directions for researchers with similar concerns. We also wish to draw attention to identity and privacy issues in social VR and call for interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Section: Revealing Personal Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Revealing Personal Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital body, identity and privacy in social virtual reality: A systematic review

Lin

Latoschik

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…Some libraries' web sites contain external links to other web sites. However, the libraries' web sites have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of, or information gathered by, those other web sites (Deng & Ruan, 2009). Then users' privacy will be brought about.…”

Section: Privacy Issues In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Content Analysis of Library Associations’ Privacy Policies in Some Countries

Wang

Zhang

2012

International Journal of Digital Library Systems

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Librarians have a long history of protecting users' privacy; library associations' codes of ethics in many countries also express the support for the right and some of them have made privacy policies. But the extent of library associations' compliance with codes of ethics and content of privacy policies include is unclear. The study surveys national library associations' privacy policies in which privacy appears in codes of ethics, which is based on content analysis of codes of ethics in Pnina Shachaf's study. Trough content analysis approach, descriptive characteristics, readability, and content of policies are examined. The most frequently

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