Book chapter: Extended reality technologies in higher education: five threats to privacy and data protection

Elora Fernandes published a chapter in the ETUI–ETUCE book ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector’, edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo.

The chapter titled ‘Extended reality technologies in higher education: five threats to privacy and data protection’ explores how XR technologies hold significant potential in education, enabling students and educators to interact with reality and knowledge in new ways. However, their operation relies on the real-time collection of vast amounts of data, particularly special categories of data in order to integrate the physical and digital worlds seamlessly. This raise several challenges briefly discussed in the chapter, including not only the volume and type of data processed, but also data repurposing and the collection of data from bystanders, especially in (semi-)public spaces.

The book is open access and can be downloaded here.