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How can ubiquitous computing be dangerous?
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Science Channel
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Science Channel
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Ubiquitous computing works on the premise that computers can collect enough data to monitor your behavior, assess your needs and then adjust in response. However, anything that aims to understand that much about you can be misused. So ubiquitous computing for your home has great potential, but there are dangers as well.
One obvious issue is privacy and how the information collected by your house can be abused, which also raises security concerns. At the end of the day, ubiquitous computing is just a smart computer network - and computer networks can be hacked. Another concern is that you might get used to being monitored, which brings up ethical concerns about the technology.
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