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Ethics and the Internet of
Things – an Oxymoron?Things – an Oxymoron?Paul Green, Arkessa
British Computer Society / ICT
19 March 2012
Unintended Consequences
Credit to Motorcycle News
M2M – Silo Communities
Corporate
Utilities
Government
IndustrialArkessa
Centre for GPRS & 3G InternetInternet
Extending the Internet to
anything, anywhere
Engineering
Healthcare
Community
Consumer
Remote
Internet
GPRS & 3G
Networks
InternetInternet
Fixed IP Address
Private or Public?
M2M or IOT – Entangled Communities
Manufacturer
Industrial
Control
Extending the Internet to
anything, anywhereManufacturer
Brand-owner
Electric utility
Bread-maker
Healthcare
Community
Daughter
anything, anywhere
Surveillance Society
� CCTV
- Security, Safety
- Protection, Insurance
� Voice characteristics
- Potential for violence
� Driver behaviour
- Potential for accidents
� Advertising
- Google, Minority Report
• Potential for murder
• Potential for sales
Home and Personal Devices
� 52bn connected devices in EU
- At least 10 per person
� Personal
- Fitness, lifestyle, training, bike
- Entertainment, hobbies, car, travel
- Smart watches, glasses, clothes- Smart watches, glasses, clothes
- Life-logging
� Home
- Food, shopping, post
- Appliances, heating, lighting
- Access, security, energy, utilities
- Garden: watering, greenhouse, shed
Age of the individual
- Mental clutter
- Permanent partial
attention
Will we bother?
Our challenge:
Knowing
what to care
Thanks to the Guardian
Will we bother?
- Work pressure
- Time pressure
- Economic pressure
what to care
about
Why privacy an issue?
� Things that you want to control / monitor
- But may provide data elsewhere unknown to you
- You may inadvertently have given permission for them to do so
• Small type terms or agreement for advertising etc.
� Things that are connected that you don’t know about
- Who has access to the information?
- How much does this tell them about you?
� Relatively benign data that is inter-connected
- Things that are apparently trivial
- Conclusions drawn from amassing and relating trivial data
Data Pollution
Just data Inter-related data
Good Information =
Data in right place
Bad information
Data in wrong place
Bad World = Danger!Good World = Benefits!
Sharing data
- Smart personal activity
- Community care + freedom
- Empowered consumers
Sharing data
- Smart government
- Community control
- Command economy
Beginnings … managed data access
Managed
Centre for
Remote
Internet
Patient Data stays in region
Generalised data only is pooled
Access ‘keys’ to personal data
Challenge: complex diagnostics
Aging population stimulus for home healthcare
Signs of Hope
� Information limits
� Data handling controls
� Data Keys for access
� Awareness� Awareness
- Life-logging
� Virtual reality machines
- Makes the issues real
� Unintended benefits
Thank you!
Ethics and the
Internet of Things –
an Oxymoron?
Paul Green
+44 (0) 7974 223398
Thank you!