The Russian authorities have begun to analyze the risks of the development of metauniverses and think about how they can be legally regulated. Officials believe that drug stores, new forms of agitation and even protests, up to virtual political reality, as well as "mechanisms that contribute to the decrease in morality in society" may appear in the virtual space.
The corresponding study was published by the Scientific and Technical Center GRCHTS (part of Roskomnadzor).
The authors of the work compiled a list of risks posed by the development of metauniverses:
the dominance of digital currencies in the metaverses, which will contribute to the violation of political boundaries;
creation of virtual stores, including those with prohibited substances;
virtual avatars whose identification makes personal data vulnerable to copying, erasing and manipulation. Separately, experts note: “Using augmented reality to feel tactile impulses also rethinks the experience of cybersex, and there is a threat in the possibilities of cybersex with minors, the formation of various deviations”;
the emergence of "virtual political reality, virtual political parties, new forms of agitation and protests".
Roskomnadzor has already stated that “it is necessary to develop mechanisms for self-regulation of the processes taking place in the metauniverse.”
According to sources, the appeal to the metaverses is connected with the statements of Vladimir Putin, who in November 2021 at the Artificial Intelligence Journey 2021 said that “the state should be in charge of protecting Russians and their virtual counterparts in cyberspace.”
Criminal Defense lawyer Daniil Gorkov says that “no cybersecurity system can prevent all risks for users,” and a “separate bill on metaverses” is needed. Alexander Zhuravlev, EDB Managing Partner, agrees that the legislation cannot guarantee protection against offenses in the metaverse, if only because it does not contain the relevant concepts.
The president of the E Terra Media group (works in the field of gaming and e-sports), Natalya Chaikovskaya, is sure that the potential problems of interaction with the metaverses are exaggerated, but market participants will need regulatory tools.
Yaroslav Shchitsle, head of IT & IP Dispute Resolution at Rustam Kurmaev & Partners, likened the fears of officials to those that ordinary people who are not familiar with technologies have been expressing for decades about computer games and Internet services. According to him, “the metaverse is the next step in the development of online games and educational services, only they are closer to reality,” and “such a service cannot create a different political system, erasure of personality, moral decay.”
Artem Semenikhin, Executive Director of PwC Technology Practice in Russia, notes that many regulatory issues have either been resolved or are well developed: the fight against distorted information, digital identity, digital ruble, age censorship.
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