Adam Turner Smart Home Technology

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Samsung smart televisions are convenient and resourceful due to their voice recognition command system, but people are unaware that their private conversations may be being recorded. Speaking to a television that can browse the web, watch youtube, and do anything your voice commands is much more appealing than a regular television. On the downside, anything that the television hears will be transmitted and processed. If someone’s smart television gets hacked, their private information could be accessed and taken advantage of. “Please be aware that

These extremely large data sets may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations relating to human behavior and interaction. These analysesaffect us on day to day basis positively and negatively and the legality of how this information is collected and the laws that apply may be unclear. Both with or without users' knowledge, consumer personal data is collected from every daily, digital activity; from purchases, web searches, amazon searches, browsing history, and phone use. This data is generated, and then downloaded and stored. [15] Companies can then use this data to create "data sets" or large files of users' data to produce customer profiling. This data can also be used by police, the governmental bodies, scientists, businesses, military, and other industries where occasional breaches of data are expected .[16] Breaches and leaks of personal information including phone calls, credit card information, home address, and personal phone numbers are examples of information that is logged and stored by these corporations while making "data sets". Much of this information is being processed and sold to marketers for the purpose of marketing their products. This information is stored digitally and in some cases, regardless of the security of the information being stored, there are risks of unauthorized parties

In order to solve the issue, Amazon web service has brought Internet of things technology (IoT) to secure the connections of personal computers in the home and improve the crop development for the users. The technology can be useful for office security to prevent a loss that is caused by hacking as well as attacks in the network (Amazon Web Services, Inc. 2016).

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are made up of tiny sensing devices; capable of sensing some changes of incident/parameters and communicating with other devices, over a specific area. Mainly used for tracking, surveillance and environmental monitoring. These devices make it possible to be used in a system such as Home Automation and Security. Our purpose is to make our Home secure from any attacks physically and to the sensor network. Securing our Home starts from the outside, setting up a perimeter around house sensing intrusion and alerting the home owner. Allowing only predetermined users to enter the home. From the inside you can monitor for fires, leak, humidity or smoke, which the system will promptly report this to the owner as well as alert the proper authorities. Making most of the home voice controlled only recognized by the owner’s voice can add another layer of security.

While IoT devices holds much promise, there are still many security issues that need to be addressed. These security issues can have a significant impact on everyday life, such as causing damage, disruption to business operations, and in some cases even loss of life. Having all your devices interconnected using IoT such as lighting, thermostats, doors, and elevators, seems convenient but in fact this poses a great security risk. If these risks are exploited it could disrupt power or lighting which could lead to a loss of life if it were something like a hospital. Addressing these security risks will lead to more efficient and safer to use IoT devices but companies will have to identify them in their devices first (Tankard, 2015).

The article called, The End of Privacy by Adam L. Penenberg, demonstrates the easy access an intruder can have to someone’s private information in today’s digital world with just a few taps on the keyboard, and a phone. Making your private information unprotected and defenseless. Penenberg also describes transition from mainframe computers to desktop PCs making private information vulnerable. He also reveals that marketers and busybodies have more customer data than ever. He also illustrates the advances of search methods that cyber criminals have up their sleeve, how the misrepresent themselves in order to puncture through the credit bureaus, and the Federal reserve database, spilling out all of your financial information, social security,

Something similar is happening with our cyber information. Internet service providers can collect information from users such as browsing information, location, financial, health information, etc. and sell that information to marketing and advertisement agencies. Sites such as Facebook can also track user’s online activity and sell that information to advertisers and third-party sites, an example of this is anytime a user logs into a site using Facebook it allows that company to track their online activity. Ultimately, people should be made aware of what is happening with their personal

How far is too far when it comes to privacy? In a rapidly developing digital age, the boundaries are constantly expanding as new technology emerges. Data mining is not going away, so the debate on privacy becomes increasingly relevant. The line between what is ethical and unethical quickly become blurred, and certain entities are bound to take advantage of that gray area. Corporations claim they are collecting private data for marketing research to serve more relevant advertising and increase profits. Despite the marketing benefits of digital data collection, it is unethical for corporations to collect private digital data without taking proper measures to protect privacy.

The Gator Tech smart house at the University of Florida is a laboratory-house created to assist older adults in maximizing independence and maintaining higher quality of life. The entire house is equipped with (a) smart cameras for motion detection, image processing, and control of other in-home devices, (b) smart blinds that automatically close to block sunlight when the air conditioner is on, (c) ultrasonic location tracking transceivers that are installed on the ceiling corners of each room to detect movement, location, and orientation of the resident, (d) smart floor that uses pressure sensors embedded into each tile to detect falls and reports to emergency services, and (f) smart displays for entertainment media and information residents

The speakers expands on the ideas that many home-users that have computer systems do not really know how vulnerable their computers are to the invasion of privacy due to having a weak password. The speakers expresses that having a weak password is a keen problem that needs to be addressed. The stigma with this issue will not go away because the author explains that “the current circumstances minimize engineering and support expenses by externalizing the cost of properly securing these devices” which ultimately place users in a dangerous situation (Carpenter, Dittrich, & Karir, 2015).

Home Surveillance: Major companies such as Amazon, Google, and Apple are using smart home devices such as Google Home, Amazon echo, to capture and collect everything that you are saying in your household. Trevor Timm the chief editor for (The Guardian) “ the government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying.” The National Security Agency or the NSA collects all the telephone messages, and even our Internet records and stores them. Surveillance should be have height to

The benefits and detriments of technology, seen in Ray Bradbury's novel “The Veldt” and “Eyes, Ears, and Nose… From Stem Cells”, can alter quality of life. The article and the novel both display new technology that can improve and make life easier for people. They also show that there can be issues with the technology.

First, I want to describe who the subjects of the issue are. In my opinion, the issue is the most relevant for the private and commercial information. Home users risk their security while connected to

Home Surveillance: Major companies such as Amazon, Google, and Apple are using smart home devices such as Google Home, Amazon echo, to capture and collect everything that you are saying in your household. Trevor Timm the chief editor for (The Guardian) “ the government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying.” The National Security Agency or the NSA collects all the telephone messages, and even our Internet records and stores them. Surveillance should be have height to where it should reach and should stop there not exceeding the lines. “ Its providing ample opportunity for intelligence agencies to spy on targets, and possibly the masses,” pleas (The Guardian). In a survey done by the (Pew Research Center) it claims that “ 1 in 4 americans surveyed that Uncle Sam is hacking their personal communications.” This meaning that people believe that their data, their personal files are being privately seen by someone that they don’t know, but what is there to hide for them.