Metaverse Skeptics are worried about the possibility of large-scale users and unprotected data surveillanceA scale like none before. Ironically, Meta, which is the biggest company behind the Metaverse (Formerly known as Facebook), has faced its own fair share of privacy scandals in the internet’s current iteration, culminating in Mark Zuckerberg being infamously hauled before the United States Congress to answer for Facebook’s inability to combat hate speech and data privacy violations.

Frances Haugen was a whistleblower in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee. Indicted Meta of prioritizing “profit over the well-being of children and all users” when it came to creating manipulative algorithms that tap behavioral data to persuade users into spending more time on the platform.