# Extended Reality (XR) and the Erosion of Anonymity and Privacy

## Overview

**Authors:** Dr. Mark McGill

**Publication Date:** 1 November 2021

**Link:** <https://standards.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/import/governance/iccom/extended-reality-anonymity-privacy.pdf>

**Keywords:** XR, augmented intelligence, augmented perception, privacy implications, user privacy, ethics in XR, consent in XR, informed consent, security and surveillance

**Type:** Peer-Reviewed Journals/White Papers

## Summary

This paper highlights some of the key capabilities that XR adoption will unlock – around augmented intelligence, personal and distributed surveillance, and augmented perception – and considers the privacy implications XR has for users, bystanders, and society more broadly. The paper then reflects on the growing need to understand, anticipate, and protect against the capacity for XR to both consensually and non-consensually infringe upon the user and bystander privacy.