Society: sensors & sensibility

  • Authors:
  • Jean Kumagai;Steven Cherry

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Costs, convenience, and security all converge on this: a world with more sensors, bigger databases, and much less privacy. As new technologies and uses of data are being added seemingly every day, the potential for greater abuse is growing. Meanwhile, legal protections are lagging far behind.