China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy (Gian Volpicelli/Politico)

Gian Volpicelli / Politico:
China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy  —  China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear …