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Review of the Privateness, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law: Metaverse and the Law

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Review of the Privateness, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law: Metaverse and the Law

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This article is an excerpt from The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review, 9th Edition. Click here for the full guide.


I The legal status of the metaverse

On October 21, 2021, the first news broke about the rebranding of Facebook Inc to Meta Platforms Inc. The goal was to better reflect the core business: Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to realize the Metaverse,two and its lofty ambitions to do so are reflected in the prominence of the investors it locked up, such as the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock.3

The Metaverse you have in mind is a complete and fulfilling VR experience.4 In this sense, Meta is nothing more than the natural convergence of all the pieces of the puzzle that Zuckerberg has prepared: Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Giphy, Mapillary, etc. While none of…

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