Virtual worlds as jurisdictions

 There was a question from an EPIC representative.
He said they have just released their latest report, Privacy and Human Rights 2006
(it was released at a Montreal conference on privacy last month).

For the first time (perhaps the first time ever for a major international report),
they included Second Life as a jurisdiction that they reported on.

Ginsu Yoon of Second Life responded that we have to recognise that companies have a
real physical presence as well, they have servers and employees in the United States,
subject to US law.

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Speaking personally, I think there is a big challenge in figuring out how to deal with
the intersection between the local physical reality and legal frameworks, and the global
differences in cultures and laws.

Earlier in the session, John Oxley had remarked that the world is getting bigger from a
government perspective while at the same time it gets smaller from an individual perspective