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03.18.09Second Life Transactions Jeopardize RL Privacy (Crazy Canadians)A report from the Privacy Commission of Canada has concluded that economic transactions in Second Life could be harmful to a user's real life privacy, according to the CBC. The commission published a report from Janet Lo, who conducted the study of SL while a law student at the University of Ottawa. The paper, entitled "Second Life: Privacy in Virtual Worlds," was commissioned by the commissioner, and its table of contents can be found here. She found that agreements made between Linden Labs and Second Life users didn't necessarily translate to transactions between avatars in-world. Lo cited the infamous happening ...
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