question archive Hello Professor and Classmates,     The umbrella term intelligent assistive technology (IAT) “is used to refer to a variety of technologies leveraging on computing capabilities, robotics and machine intelligence for assistive purposes” (Wangmo, Lipps, Kressig and Ienca, 2020)

Hello Professor and Classmates,     The umbrella term intelligent assistive technology (IAT) “is used to refer to a variety of technologies leveraging on computing capabilities, robotics and machine intelligence for assistive purposes” (Wangmo, Lipps, Kressig and Ienca, 2020)

Subject:Computer SciencePrice:8.98 Bought3

Hello Professor and Classmates,

    The umbrella term intelligent assistive technology (IAT) “is used to refer to a variety of technologies leveraging on computing capabilities, robotics and machine intelligence for assistive purposes” (Wangmo, Lipps, Kressig and Ienca, 2020). IAT can support people in completing daily tasks, remote communication, health monitoring, emergency alarms, etc. Some IAT devices examples are wearable devices such as smartwatches, handheld devices such as tablets and smartphones, and voice-activated devices such as Siri, Alexa, and Google Home.

    Amazon’s Echo device and the Alexa voice assistance have been on the radar for a while due to the ethical concern of the amount of data and how data is being collected and analyzed. For Alexa to assist an individual and for Amazon to continue to give the customer an excellent customer experience, Alexa must listen and record all data going on in their surroundings when awaken. The data collected is analyzed using a computer and having employees listen to the user’s voice recordings (Benjamin, 2020). Alexa can collect so much data that after the data is analyzed, Amazon could determine user patterns, such as the user’s favorite music artist, the time the users wake up and go to sleep, and the user’s most frequently searched items.

        The way Amazon uses Alexa to collected data raises privacy concerns because one could think of Alexa as a quite surveillance device listening and waiting to record everything it hears when it awakens. By having an Echo device installed in the household, office, or anywhere else, all sensitive or private information an individual or individuals might not want to share or be known could be recorded and seen or listen to by some other person that they do not know. That is why people need to know how to manage Alexa’s privacy setting. Through Alexa’s privacy settings, a person can select to automatically delete voice recordings older than 3 or 18 months, amongst other things (Amazon, n.d.). Managing Alexa’s privacy setting can protect and limit the information being collected.

    It is also important for users to know that Alexa can have “false wakes.” False wakes occur when Alexa incorrectly “hears” or thinks it had heard an awaken word when, in reality, the user did not want to summon Alexa. False wakes also raise privacy concerns because if Alexa accidentally awakens, it can start recording and start sending the data to the cloud that the user does not want to share

    A user's personal information can not only be recorded by Alexa, but it could be potentially be recorded by an intruder if the device is hacked. Essentially, Amazon’s Echo device is always listening, meaning the microphone is always on. If an intruder wants to spy on an individual, it could merely hack into the device and start listening. Users' information could also be compromised if the cloud gets hack, meaning that all sensitive information collected and stored could potentially cause user harm.

Questions for the Class.

  1. Is Alexa invading privacy by the way data is collected and analyzed?
  2. Should Alexa stop recording personal information, such as medical information?
  3. Should data collect by Alexa be used in a court of law? Either in defense or against and individual.

 

 

Reference

Amazon.com Help: Manage Your Alexa Privacy Settings. (n.d.). Retrieved August 28, 2020, from https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GPGRYRZ494GDFPZ2

Benjamin, G. (2020, January 20). Amazon Echo’s privacy i0ssues go way beyond voice recordings. Retrieved August 28, 2020, from https://theconversation.com/amazon-echos-privacy-issues-go-way-beyond-voice-recordings-130016

Wangmo, T., Lipps, M., Kressig, R. W., & Ienca, M. (2019). Ethical concerns with the use of intelligent assistive technology: findings from a qualitative study with professional stakeholders. BMC Medical Ethics, 20(1). Retrieved August 28, 2020 from https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0437-z

 

Option 1

Low Cost Option
Download this past answer in few clicks

8.98 USD

PURCHASE SOLUTION

Option 2

Custom new solution created by our subject matter experts

GET A QUOTE

rated 5 stars

Purchased 3 times

Completion Status 100%