Information technology and dataveillance
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Privacy and the varieties of moral wrong-doing in an information age
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Information, Ethics, and Computers: The Problem of Autonomous Moral Agents
Minds and Machines
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy
Ethics and Information Technology
The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Personal autonomy in the travel panopticon
Ethics and Information Technology
Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives
Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Ethics and Information Technology
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging global infrastructure that employs wireless sensors to collect, store, and exchange data. Increasingly, applications for marketing and advertising have been articulated as a means to enhance the consumer shopping experience, in addition to improving efficiency. However, privacy advocates have challenged the mass aggregation of personally-identifiable information in databases and geotracking, the use of location-based services to identify one's precise location over time. This paper employs the framework of contextual integrity related to privacy developed by Nissenbaum (Privacy in context: technology, policy, and the integrity of social life. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2010) as a tool to understand citizen response to implementation IoT-related technology in the supermarket. The purpose of the study was to identify and understand specific changes in information practices brought about by the IoT that may be perceived as privacy violations. Citizens were interviewed, read a scenario of near-term IoT implementation, and were asked to reflect on changes in the key actors involved, information attributes, and principles of transmission. Areas where new practices may occur with the IoT were then highlighted as potential problems (privacy violations). Issues identified included the mining of medical data, invasive targeted advertising, and loss of autonomy through marketing profiles or personal affect monitoring. While there were numerous aspects deemed desirable by the participants, some developments appeared to tip the balance between consumer benefit and corporate gain. This surveillance power creates an imbalance between the consumer and the corporation that may also impact individual autonomy. The ethical dimensions of this problem are discussed.