Metaverse Privacy Broker for Data Exchange and Risk Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
The proliferation of metaverses has outpaced the development of effective privacy and protection safeguards, leaving users vulnerable to data exposure and interaction with unsuitable or risky virtual spaces.
Innovation Solution
A metaverse privacy and protection system monitors user interactions and presence within metaverses, implementing protocols to prevent unauthorized interactions, alert users to potential risks, and enforce parental controls to safeguard user data and protect vulnerable users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If privacy and protection protocols are implemented in metaverses, then user privacy and security are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A privacy broker system is introduced as an intermediary component that mediates between metaverse applications and user devices. The privacy broker handles protocol implementation, monitoring interactions, and enforcing privacy rules centrally, thereby improving user privacy and security while preventing the complexity from being distributed across all system components. This intermediary approach allows complex privacy management functions to be consolidated in a dedicated system rather than embedded throughout the entire metaverse infrastructure.
2Reliability
If interaction monitoring is performed to prevent unauthorized data exchanges, then user data protection is improved, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
Privacy rules and interaction permissions are established and configured in advance before actual metaverse interactions occur. The system pre-defines what data exchanges are permitted, what interactions are allowed, and what privacy boundaries exist. When monitoring interactions, the system checks against these pre-established rules rather than making complex real-time decisions, significantly reducing processing overhead during actual user interactions while maintaining strong data protection.
Solution Approach 2:
User devices and metaverse applications are equipped with integrated privacy monitoring capabilities that enable them to self-monitor and self-report their interactions to the privacy broker. This distributed self-service approach allows the system to track and protect user data without requiring centralized monitoring of every single interaction, reducing the overall processing overhead while maintaining comprehensive data protection.
3Reliability
If parental control protocols are implemented for child safety, then protection of vulnerable users is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Parental control protocols are implemented as specialized, localized privacy rules within the broader privacy framework. Instead of creating a completely separate complex system for parental controls, the patent applies the same privacy broker infrastructure but with specific rule sets tailored for child protection. This allows vulnerable users to receive enhanced protection through targeted rules while leveraging the existing privacy management system, thereby improving protection without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for managing or providing privacy in metaverses and/or to providing protection of a user within metaverses. In certain embodiments, a metaverse user privacy system may be used to prevent or discourage user data or private information from being compromised. Such limitations or prohibitions may be applied or enforced based on various factors, such as privacy or security settings specified by a user. In further aspects, the presently described techniques may facilitate protecting a user from known or suspected “bad” actors or from entering portions of the metaverse presenting risks to the user. Similarly, in further aspects the presently described techniques may be implemented as configurable parental controls, allowing a parent or guardian to configure or specify the types on interactions and risks a child may be exposed to in metaverses.