TRAIL, Facebook and Building a Responsible Metaverse

The Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) is delighted to be one of the first research institutes to receive a grant from Facebook under its XR Programs and Research Fund launched on 27 September 2021 to conduct research on privacy and data use.

This research forms a part of Facebook’s larger project to build a responsible “metaverse” with experts in government, industry and academia: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/building-the-metaverse-responsibly/

Associate Professor Daniel Seng, Director of TRAIL, said: “We at TRAIL are glad to be able to contribute towards Facebook’s metaverse-building project. Extended reality creates implications for data privacy and data use that go well beyond the aggregation of data protection issues in reality and virtuality. We believe that it is important to bring to bear an objective and robust analysis of these issues and offer a variety of multidisciplinary solutions for their resolution in the design stages to ensure that the metaverse and its technologies are robust and consonant with the best ideals of humanity.”