Extended reality in European academic institutions : interdisciplinary research on open justice

Abstract

This paper continues the discussion on advanced jurisprudence, outlined in Algorithms, Ethics and Justice (Hadzi 2022), where restorative justice was proposed for the mitigation of artificial intelligence (AI) crimes. Algorithms, Ethics and Justice proposed an alternative approach to the current legal system by looking into restorative justice for AI crimes, and how the ethics of care could be applied to AI technologies. This paper will expand the notion of cyber crimes from AI crimes to extended reality (XR) crimes, given the rise of the metaverse (Anderson & Rainie 2022; Chohan 2022), and the future scenario of biometrical data of EEG capable headsets (Graham 2022) being misused by rogue companies and/or criminals (Jaber 2022; Nair et al. 2022; Zhao et al. 2022). The paper will do so first by discussing Mill’s text On Liberty (Mill 1978), as a context to explore open justice in extended realities (XR), and then by continuing the discussion around the right to be forgotten and the freedom of the press versus privacy, through a comparative analysis between the legal situation in the EU and that of the USA. The paper concludes by reviewing possible international open justice scenarios for XR criminals.