IoT is helping obtain 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 story. Employees of a software company in Sweden had implanted chips in their wrists that activated the company photocopier. Yes, you read that right. Having minor surgery instead of just remembering a four-digit PIN is a pretty daft thought. You’d absorb to be a tech utopian to want to do it.
But this news story wasn’t just approximately privacy and current technologies, or how “we’ll all soon be doing it”. This story 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