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Call for Papers – Robotics and Social Implications – Joint Special Issue

By terribookman on February 16th, 2017 in Social Implications of Technology

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine are pleased to announce a Joint Special Issue for March 2018. Due…  Read More

Tags: Robotics

IEEE SSIT Newsletter – February 2017

By ieeessit on February 15th, 2017 in Newsletter

In this issue: Call for volunteers to support and promote SSIT’s Five Pillars, SSIT volunteer introductions, joint special issue Call…  Read More

Surveillance by pixel eye

Your TV Might be Binge Watching You!

By Jim Isaak on February 7th, 2017 in Articles, Privacy & Security

VIZIO is reportedly paying fines for using TVs to track user’s viewing patterns in significant detail as well as associating…  Read More

Tags: Internet of ThingsPrivacyTV

IEEE SSIT Newsletter – January 2017

By ieeessit on January 16th, 2017 in Newsletter

In this issue: SSIT Board of Governors election results, awards and publications notices, and conference reminders. Happy New Year! 2016…  Read More

Tele-Kiss … Hmmm

By Jim Isaak on January 11th, 2017 in Articles, Societal Impact

London haptic researchers have developed a device to add to a cell phone that will allow remote persons kiss, as…  Read More

Tags: Cell Phoneshapticstele-kiss

Online Physical Attack

By Jim Isaak on January 3rd, 2017 in Articles, Health & Medical

It should be noted that an early, if not first, instance of an online physical attack on a person has…  Read More

Tags: anonymityInternet of ThingsSocial MediaVR

Alexa Called as Witness?

By Jim Isaak on December 29th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security

“Alexa, tell me, in your own words, what happened on the night in question.” Actually the request is more like,…  Read More

Tags: AIAmazon Echolegal aspectsVoice recognition

Who’s Monitoring the Baby Monitors?

By Guest Author on December 14th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security

Guest Blog entry by Cassie Phillips With the recent, record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks carried out with hijacked Internet-of-Things…  Read More

Tags: baby monitorInternet of Things

monitoring bunker, where individual profile work might be done

Big Brother/Big Data 2016

By Jim Isaak on December 1st, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security

The powers of big data, AI/analytics, and subtle data collection are now converging to a future only hinted at in Orwell’s 1984.

Tags: AIBig DataBlog postCambridge AnalyticaPersonalization

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Who Do You Want Listening In at Your Home?

By Jim Isaak on November 9th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security

With Siri and Alexa, you are being asked to “bug your house” with a device that listens to every noise in the house.

Tags: Blog postInternet of ThingsVoice recognition

Lost in Translation – Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons

By terribookman on October 13th, 2016 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

by Marc Canellas and Rachel Haga Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are already here. Although some of the colloquial names for…  Read More

Ethics of Killing with Robots

By Jim Isaak on July 20th, 2016 in Articles, Ethics, Societal Impact

The ability to kill a target from a “position of safety” is essentially the basic design criteria for many weapon systems.

Tags: AIBlog postRobots

T&S Magazine Wins STC Award

By terribookman on January 19th, 2016 in Social Implications of Technology

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, the flagship publication of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, has won a…  Read More

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Eavesdropping Barbie?

By Jim Isaak on March 17th, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security, Robotics, Societal Impact

Should children have toys that can combine speech recognition with a Wi-Fi connection to capture and respond to them, and that potentially are able to record their conversations as well as feed them “messages”?  Welcome to the world of Hello Barbie.

Tags: Blog postInternet of ThingsPrivacyRobotsVoice recognition

Car speedometer - outdated car monitoring device

Who is Watching My Car — Car Monitoring

By Jim Isaak on March 13th, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security

The insurance company’s privacy policy does not allow them to collect the data that their web page claims this device will collect — so clearly privacy is an afterthought.

Tags: Blog postSelf Driving CarsSensorsTelecomunications

vintage cars are not subject to car hacking

Who is Driving Your Car? Car Hacking

By Jim Isaak on February 21st, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security

A recent CBS Sixty Minutes program interviewed folks at U.S. DARPA, including a demonstration of how a recent hacking of…  Read More

Tags: Blog postCyberwarfareHackingIntelligent VehiclesInternet of ThingsSoftware Engineering

U.S. Tax Form (1040) a significant source of informative big data

U.S. States Use Big Data to Catch Big Thieves

By Jim Isaak on December 3rd, 2014 in Articles, Case Studies, Societal Impact

Various states in the U.S. are using big data tools, such as the Lexus-Nexus database, to identify people who are…  Read More

Tags: Big DataBlog postCloud ComputingcrimeData Mining

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Cyberwar and Social Impact

By Jim Isaak on October 20th, 2014 in Articles, Societal Impact

Cyber attacks are increasing. What might be done about this, by technologists, by citizens, or by nation states?

Tags: Blog postCyberwarfare

“Reality” Covers it Well

By Jim Isaak on June 13th, 2014 in Human Impacts

The issue of how video games or movies affect behavior is a recurrent topic in academic and  public discourse.

Tags: Augmented RealitySocial Mediavirtual reality

Technology – Society – Issue / Solution – du jour – Feb. 18, 2014

By luiskun on June 9th, 2014 in Case Studies, Privacy & Security

The intention of this blog-segment is to bring up a current problem caused by technology and discuss not only its…  Read More

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