Submission in response to Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking R111004: Commercial Surveillance and Data Security (ANPR).

CAVRN welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking R111004: Commercial Surveillance and Data Security (ANPR). The following comments are largely focused on questions posed in Section A. Our responses draw from Carter and Egliston’s Ethical Implications of Emerging Mixed Reality project, which critically interrogates the perceived benefits, risks, and ambiguities of emerging ‘mixed reality’ technologies. This includes head-mounted virtual reality (VR) technologies, such as the Oculus suite of VR hardware developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), and head mounted augmented reality (AR) technologies, such as the Microsoft HoloLens. Although these technologies are only emerging, the privacy implications from their widespread adoption are significant.