Ethics and the Internet of Things
summary
Argues that many IoT deployments trade privacy for trivial convenience and create harmful secondary markets: BBC iPlayer listens for adult/child voices to personalize viewing; shared autonomous pods in Milton Keynes reroute in real time to serve retail pitches; Telefónica’s Wingman is a predictive health lifelogging project; care robots reduce human contact while routing sensitive alerts to carers and authorities; BigBelly bins capture mobile handshakes; Chicago’s Array of Things sensors enable profiling that can raise insurance costs and depress property values.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Ethics and IoT
- 1:08Personalization vs privacy
- 2:33AI-enhanced BBC iPlayer case
- 3:41Autonomous cars ethics
- 5:26Smart transport commercialization
- 7:14Healthcare privacy risks
- 9:43Trash receptacles tracking
- 11:09Smart cities dilemmas
- 12:59Ethical reflection
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