How to Protect Your Privacy from Glassholes & The Metaverse

Stupid Sexy Privacy

This week, we're entering the metaverse. A place where few have legs and fewer still have functional head-mounted displays.

Joining BJ on the show today is Brittan Heller. Brittan is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Affiliate at Stanford Cyber Policy Center.

Following-up on last week's discussion with Dr. Arthur Caplan, BJ and Brittan discuss how easy it is to identify someone just from their head movements, why that information isn't currently protected, and how to design a metaverse that's accessible and equitable to all.

Rosie will also share with you this week's privacy tip, which this week is less of a tip and more of a book recommendation. As it turns out, with the coming explosion of Augmented Reality Glasses thanks to Apple later this year, we all need to take some time and learn non-violent communication. Rosie will explain why!

This episode may seem future-facing, but the truth is, this is a privacy and security challenge we all face today. If data collected from a head-mounted display like the Meta Quest 2 can diagnose you with ADHD, you probably want to have that kind of information private.

And if it's true your head movements are specific and unique to you, that kind of information is the stuff marketers and advertisers would kill to collect.

Which ... is why we did this episode. These are conversations we need to have now, and as Brittan points out, our government is woefully unprepared to do so.

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And before we go ...

BJ and Amanda are recording a two-hour video course that you can purchase based on this podcast and their upcoming book, "How to Protect Yourself From Fascists and Weirdos."

The course will include every step from our privacy audits and examples of how to put those steps into practice.

If you'd like to know when the course is available, email BJ at [e-mail] with Privacy Course in the subject line.