Privacy in SL

I will be hosting a discussion on privacy in SL, but probably not for awhile. In the meantime I have left two opportunities for residents to express their opinions on the subject at my place, the Hanging Garden of Contemplation (Ebisu 193, 236)

You can leave a public bulletin board response to the question: "Are you being watched in SL?"

You can also respond to the poll question "The amount of privacy in SL is....."

The bulletin board is not anonymous but the poll results display is.

The responses will be used to shape the upcoming discussion.

Please drop by Ebisu 193, 236 and register your opinions on the subject.

Spengler Roo

well since chat travels through walls and so does one's camera when positioning it with camera controls, I'd say the answer to your question is an emphatic "yes." And skyboxes are no safer. Anyone with a float script can tp to your roof and indulge thier voyueristic tendencies.

are going to see you no matter what. Suppose it is because of the freedoms allowed by the Lindens. Who would want to have a mental vacation in a police state?

Not sure what could be done without changing the basic priniples.

As others have mentioned, that seems to allow one full viewing access deep into dungeons and otherwise "hidden spaces" for meters around ... combined with a little well-positioned flight, it allows views into spaces usually considered private.

Or so a little bird told me.

I've occassionally encountered avis who have and invoke privacy bubbles that surround them and obscure what's happening inside it. The bubble I saw was just enough to enclose a couple. Add to private IM'g and you have some privacy.

Has anyone experimented with a privacy shield that would deflect/defeat camera flying or obscure a larger "zone of privacy" than an individual bubble?

Discuss privacy? There is no privacy to discuss.

Privacy in SL: Are you being watched?

Date: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM (60 minutes)
Location: Ebisu (196,22
Host: Spengler Roo
Category: Discussion
Cover Charge? No

Event description: Second Life protects our RL identity and allows us a certain amount of ability to hide what we do in SL.

However in SL anyone can read our profile without our knowledge, most properties are wide open to intrusion, and there are detectives for hire.

In a poll conducted at my place of the last few weeks (with 29 respondents), 49% felt the amount of privacy in Second Life was "about right." But 41% felt there was "too little" and 10% felt there was "too much."

Let's discuss the issue of privacy in SL.

I had a dream with a minimal techno soundtrack playing, a very deep, reverbed-and-throbbing kickdrum, and some sort of closet in a Resi's house you could enter. And inside, would be another space, a virtual private space, a metametaverse, and you could invite your friends in. it would be blank at first, like the Construct from The Matrix. And similarly, it could start off all boxy and white, similarly. Effectively, it would be the 3D representation of Instant Messaging, and as such, you could make a "hologram clone" of your avatar and speak in this space, while continuing to journey about the gridverse otherwise.

Yes, I'm of the school that finds it awfully strange that IM is text-only. Drives me nuts!