EVENTS

Thorsten Strufe from the KIT in Karlsruhe will give a talk on privacy in the Metaverse.

Extended realities (XR), including Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), are emerging technologies with a wide range of potential applications, including networking, gaming, healthcare, and education. However, as with any new technology, AR/VR also introduces new security and privacy challenges. AR and VR devices collect a wide range of personal data about users, including their physical movements, eye movements, and voice recordings. This data can be used to track users' activities, identify them, or even infer private attributes like health conditions or private preferences. Furthermore, XR applications integrate multiple modalities, such as audio, video, and haptic data streams, enlarging security and privacy exposure. Yet, there are always claims of how "anonymization" and "pseudonymization" were helping to achieve "GDPR compliance". In this talk I will present results from three of our recent studies, and we will discuss how claimed protection has proven and is ineffective under scrutiny.

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Thorsten Strufe is professor of IT Security at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/KASTEL), and adjunct professor for Privacy and Network Security at TU Dresden. He is a deputy speaker of the Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), and a PI in the national IT security competence center KASTEL Security Research Labs.
His research interests lie in the areas of privacy and network security, especially in the context of social networking services and novel mixed reality applications. Recently, he has focused on studying privacy implications of user behavior and possibilities to provide privacy-preserving and secure networked services.
Previous posts include faculty positions at TU Dresden, TU Darmstadt, and Uni Mannheim, as well as postdoc/researcher positions at EURECOM (France) and TU Ilmenau.

Institution

• Computer Networks UHH