{"id":145456,"date":"2022-09-02T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/addiction-crime-and-data-breaches-the-metaverse-could-become-a-wild-west-if-were-not-careful"},"modified":"2022-09-02T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T06:22:21","slug":"addiction-crime-and-data-breaches-the-metaverse-could-become-a-wild-west-if-were-not-careful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/addiction-crime-and-data-breaches-the-metaverse-could-become-a-wild-west-if-were-not-careful","title":{"rendered":"Addiction, crime and data breaches: The metaverse could become a wild west if we\u2019re not careful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/addiction-crime-and-data-breaches-the-metaverse-could-become-a-wild-west-if-were-not-careful.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But with such a rapid expansion into this new virtual world, will it be safe, regulated and, is it something we should fear or accept with open arms?<\/p>\n<p>We talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hope.ac.uk\/si\/professor-david-reid.html\">David Reid<\/a>, a Professor of AI and spatial computing at Liverpool Hope University to see what to expect from the future of the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a few definitions. You can think of it from a technological viewpoint, where it\u2019s simply the successor of the internet. Computers once took up big rooms, but they\u2019ve shrunk until we got things like pocket-sized smartphones that you constantly interact with. The metaverse takes this a step further, making the actual environment you interact with virtual, removing the interface of computers completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But with such a rapid expansion into this new virtual world, will it be safe, regulated and, is it something we should fear or accept with open arms? We talk to David Reid, a Professor of AI and spatial computing at Liverpool Hope University to see what to expect from the future of the metaverse. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}