The article examines the metaverse, detailing its user profiles and legal challenges. It highlights data protection principles and privacy concerns unique to virtual environments. Emphasis is placed on data minimisation strategies to safeguard user privacy, concluding with the necessity for robust regulatory measures to ensure ethical development of the metaverse.

The European Data Protection Board („EDPB”), the European Union’s independent body mandated to ensure the consistent application of Regulation no. 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data („GDPR”), issued, in May 2020, new specific guidelines for the interpretation and application of the GDPR provisions on consent for processing personal data. This...

As of May 25, 2018, there have been numerous debates on the basis of Regulation (EU) 679/2016 on the protection of personal data („the Regulation”), focusing in particular on those personal data processing that are carried out in the context of the deployment business activities in departments such as HR, marketing, or sales.Very little has been said about data processing in the context of the implementation of physical security m...