privacy
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is the vision of the future and is responsive to the user’s needs. AmI has six defining features which are not necessarily all present in one system, these include being embedded, interconnected, adaptive, personalized, anticipatory and context-aware. This document aims to inform the reader about AmI and its applications in everyday in addition to the various ethical issues that surround this technology.
Professor Richard Aldrich (University of Warwick) talks about Privacy in the 21st century.
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The Hidden Lives Revealed website contains information from The Children's Society about children's homes in the period 1881-1981, together with anonymised case histories of children in care during this time. Some limited user interaction with the site is possible, by two methods: adding comments to a blog, and sending e-cards containing a picture from the site and a message from the user.
Personal health monitoring (PHM) systems capable of gathering pervasive physiological and behavioural data are currently emerging to supplement existing medical resources. As a technology designed to operate in the private sphere PHM can digitise, record and analyse the behaviours and health of users. Current PHM ethics discourse reflects an overly narrow conceptualisation of privacy, at the cost of ignoring privacy implications related to social categorisation and the disempowerment of users.
A unified perspective on data protection is set to be adopted in the EU through the General Data Protection Legislation, which intended to unite and simplify disparate legislation currently enacted at a national level. Such legislation contributes to the definition of responsible research and innovation by defining norms of legal and ethically acceptable behaviour in the context of data protection. This contribution to the FRRIICT repository examines provisions of the forthcoming EU Regulation governing the protection of personal data against uses which violate the ‘legitimate i
Emerging information and communications technologies enable individuals and communities to collect and share granular, accurate, and sometimes personal data about their lives and environments, raising numerous challenges for socially responsible innovation. To encourage socially responsible data collection, ICT designers must incorporate discussions of ethics, values, and social responsibilities into their design process.
One aspect of the INDECT project is aimed at creating automated security and anti-terrorism surveillance systems. It aims to do this by creating algorithms that will process video, audio and other inputs in order to detect potential threats. These algorithms are intended eventually to do this processing without human intervention.
Seven defining features are described in the Technology Description on Ambient Intelligence (AmI).
This FRRIICT case study surveyed ‘case studies’ from previous projects and project managers in the Managing Research Data (MRD) and Open Educational Resources (OER) programmes to identify and showcase examples of where ethical procedures for consenting research subjects and participants in teaching materials had ‘gone out of date’, and to look into the future to try to envisage how current consent practices might keep pace with technological change.
This case study investigated risks and uncertainties associated with the personal privacy of users in applications that integrate data obtained from users, or data derived from obtained data, with the Web of Linked Data based on the dot.rural Informed Rural Passenger (IRP) project.
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