IoT is helping create privacy and autonomy the preserve of the powerful. As technology’s glare increases,it’s imperative we question who benefits from itRecently I went on a BBC news programme to give “the privacy side” of a technology tale. Employees of a software company in Sweden had implanted chips in their wrists that activated the company photocopier. Yes, you read that just. Having minor surgery instead of just remembering a four-digit PIN is a pretty daft idea. You’d have to be a tech utopian to want to enact it.
But this news tale wasn’t just approximately privacy and new technologies, or how “we’ll all soon be doing it”. This tale was approximately power: who has it,who doesn’t, how it is used. And the internet of things, or too,is approximately power.
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Source: theguardian.com