With the virtual world increasingly mirroring real-world interactions, legal issues related to data security and privacy, intellectual property rights, liability laws, and digital currency are likely to arise. Without adequate protection for such information, companies can have free access to it, to the detriment of users, as well as law and order.

Here we discuss the laws and regulations in India that may have an interaction with the metaverse.

Data Protection

Data protection and privacy become crucial as all interactions in the metaverse take place in environments owned and controlled by entities that also control the creation, flow, and storage of all data in the metaverse.

Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data…