4/6/2017 2 Comments Wearable technology (Blog #10) We live in a world that is heavily dominated by technology such that everywhere we go, technology plays a role in shaping the way we live in the modern world. Whether it be the creation of autonomous cars that are capable of driving themselves from A to B or like the phones that we in our pockets right now. Within recent years, there has been a shift in the use of technology to more wearable technologies such as Apple’s iWatch, Fitbit sport watches and wristbands, and the list can go one. What these devices offer is sometimes more than what the phone itself is able to do, such as measure your heart rate, sleep patterns, level of exercise, and many more. Some people like these features and just the convenience that these devices offer the user, but all this comes at a price. If you have heard the expression before “Nothin in life is free”, then you know that all this comes at a price. Even though you did pay for the device with your hard earned money, you are also paying the company as well for the amount of time you use their product. In this case, you don’t pay the company with cash, necessarily, you are paying them with you data. Data that could range anywhere from your level of activity to your sleep patterns, companies will use the data to collect from you to try to figure out ways to improve their product or they can even sell your data to other companies so they can try to sell you their product. That is how big companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and many more are able to offer there product for free because they are just selling your information to other companies. Which goes back to what quote mentioned earlier about there is no such thing as something free. Another threat that people are more concerned when it comes to wearable technology is that they can easily be hacked. According to the article “A New Wake of Gadgets Can Collect Your Personal Information Like Never Before” mentions how “According to two security experts, wearable computing devices can get hacked, but it remains unclear as to whether or not there's real motivation in stealing data from wearable devices just yet.” This can be quite alarming for many of us, just knowing that other people are able to hack our devices and know things about us that we wouldn’t like to other people to know about us. One issue that comes to mind is the fact that some wearable technologies are able to gather GPS location of the user, which can be really frightening to know that someone knows exactly where you are at all times is scary. http://www.businessinsider.com/privacy-fitness-trackers-smartwatches-2014-10
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Luigi
5/17/2017 06:09:10 pm
Data mining for this kind of collected information is a new gold mine, and we are only just seeing the beginning of it. Whether we like it or not, data is being collected is so many ways we cannot even imagine, and sooner or later it will be something you will be dealing with, just like unwanted phone calls. Big Brother is watching!
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