If you want some more specific examples, just watch Avi Rubin
a computer science professor and director
of Health and Medical Security Lab at Johns Hopkins
University
If all our devices can be hacked, why do we buy so many of
them? Why do we ignore all the evidence? “…technology companies have slowly come to believe that they are also
entitled to gather that data and, perhaps, use it. An investigation by the U.S.
Congress revealed recently that in many cases personal data collected by application
developers is stored and used without permission. Some may use it to expand
their own network of customers; others may sell it to advertisers. Foursquare,
Twitter, Yelp, Hipster and Instagram are among the app makers that have
collected data from iPhones. Some don't even bother to tell customers that they
are storing it.” “ Privacy is an ancient and once cherished right that has been
transformed from a fact of life to a dying memory. And, as Facebook
demonstrates several million times a day, a large part of humanity likes it the
new way.” http://www.nationalpost.com/life/There+privacy+online+missed/6173511/story.html
A small device called a BodyWave can detect levels of
neurotransmissions and can determine when you are primed to make important decisions.
The application of this advancement is enormous. Peter Freer a former high
school teacher developed existing EEG technology, which then came to NASA,
NASCAR and at the Ontario Power Generation’s attention to help employees focus.
It can be worn on your arm or anywhere else where your body is sensitive to
changes. “The sensors register the electrical charges that occur in your brain
when you concentrate hard. The act of concentration necessitates the firing of
neurons in careful synchrony. That synchrony produces a unique electrical
signature that can be measured.” “The BodyWave is
discomforting to many users because it can detect changes in your thoughts
before you can.” What will technology be able to do with this
application in the future?
A video demonstration:
The BodyWave seems like an interesting new technology.
ReplyDeleteI really do wonder what it will be used for in the future.
Here is the thing: on one hand this inventions do make our lives so much more advanced in comparison to the past, where people hardly had any kind of technology. But on the other hand it can diminish our privacy, leaving it at a minimum.
I believe it is up to us how far we want to go. We know how much trade-off we are ready to give in exchange to be able to use this new technologies.