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Personally Im not ok with this. If someone wants my demographics they need to ask me directly not through a third party. LL has my permission for THEIR use to run THEIR business not to "share" or "sell" that info to another USER who I dont know who THEY are, where THEY are from or WHY they need it without my knowledge for THEIR business. I really dont care if its Identifiable or not. If I did that in my RL company Id get fired and prosecuted regardless if a "name" was attached to the data or not. Its still confidential data for company use only. We cant allow even that "basic" type of data to get out to our competitors and let them use those stats against our company. Ask your customers yourself. Take a survey. Let THEM volunteer that info and get the market research yourself. LL shouldnt be doing that job for you. They got their own crap to work on.

Up until ca. 2013, Meta Linden regularly published statistics, among others a breakdown of user percentage by country. I used to compile those into language statistics - that was quite useful. Here is the latest I made.

I can't recall why Meta Linden stopped that.

I think that if LL were to share more detailed statistics than simply the number of users connected, they should do so _publicly_ for everyone to see, not just creators.

So what I see here is a request for access to Linden Lab's corporate data to help with private business profit. Basically, it’s a call to hand over the numbers so creators can optimize and monetize Second Life’s residents more efficiently.

It’s being framed as a harmless ask for “simple” or “non-personal” demographics, but let’s be honest, this is market research. It is about aligning product and marketing strategy with user behavior. There’s nothing neutral about this, even if it doesn’t involve usernames or overtly personally identifiable information.

The slippery part is that it’s wrapped in community first language like “our business is your business.” This isn’t about the community, it is strictly about commerce. If we’re going to talk about turning SL into a data farmed and driven marketplace, fine let’s just call it what it is:

"Give select residents corporate intel so they can better target and monetize the people who use this platform."

Even if the information is just demographics, No thanks.

I should have been clearer apparently - SIMPLE DEMOGRAPHICS - NOT personal data. It says in the title people - Non-personal demographic data.

For every naysayer bellow, know this: the data OP is asking for is MUCH less than what cross-site cookies generate when you google something, but it can help understanding your consumer and their shopping desires. Meanwhile, while some people do lie and use vpn, that's a pretty small percentage (and the data about 1.75billion VPN users worldwide is a false statement repeated over and over, backtracked to an ad piece from "top10vpn" back in 2020 that doesn't survive 5 minutes of crosstab scrutiny).

Yes, having some demographic data would be nice, indeed.

In time: "privacy" concerns would only apply if the shared data would go down enough to single out a unique person, which in terms of demographics would require you to be the sole survivor of your whole State, or a 135 years old citizen. Or both. I'll take a wild guess that's not anyone's case.

This idea makes me viscerally uncomfortable. Having that information going out to who-knows-who so they can do who-knows-what with it sounds like a security and privacy nightmare to me.

That is protected by LL privacy policy. And no user will agree to share it just because he is buying something from someone. That is why privacy policy is protecting the users

You actually asking LL to change privacy policy and share users private information

How could LL even do that? People use VPNs and are not truthful about age.