Ethical Aspects of the Internet of Things in eHealth

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kashif Habib
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Patient Monitoring ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Disease Monitoring ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Internet Of Things

While the current Internet has brought comforts in our lives, the future of the Internet that is the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to make our daily living even much easier and convenient. The IoT presents a concept of smart world around us, where things are trying to assist and benefit people. Patient monitoring outside the hospital environment is one case for the IoT in healthcare. The healthcare system can get many benefits from the IoT such as patient monitoring with chronic disease, monitoring of elderly people, and monitoring of athletes fitness. However, the comfort may bring along some worries in the form of people’s concerns such as right or wrong actions by things, unauthorised tracking, illegal monitoring, trust relationship, safety, and security. This paper presents the ethical implications of the IoT in eHealth on people and society, and more specifically discusses the ethical issues that may arise due to distinguishing characteristics of the IoT.

scholarly journals Ethical Aspects of the Internet of Things in eHealth

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Kashif Habib
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Patient Monitoring ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Disease Monitoring ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Internet Of Things

While the current Internet has brought comforts in our lives, the future of the Internet that is the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to make our daily living even much easier and convenient. The IoT presents a concept of smart world around us, where things are trying to assist and benefit people. Patient monitoring outside the hospital environment is one case for the IoT in healthcare. The healthcare system can get many benefits from the IoT such as patient monitoring with chronic disease, monitoring of elderly people, and monitoring of athletes fitness. However, the comfort may bring along some worries in the form of people’s concerns such as right or wrong actions by things, unauthorised tracking, illegal monitoring, trust relationship, safety, and security. This paper presents the ethical implications of the IoT in eHealth on people and society, and more specifically discusses the ethical issues that may arise due to distinguishing characteristics of the IoT.

scholarly journals Achieving Ethical Algorithmic Behaviour in the Internet of Things: A Review

IoT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-426
Author(s):  
Seng W. Loke
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things is emerging as a vast, inter-connected space of devices and things surrounding people, many of which are increasingly capable of autonomous action, from automatically sending data to cloud servers for analysis, changing the behaviour of smart objects, to changing the physical environment. A wide range of ethical concerns has arisen in their usage and development in recent years. Such concerns are exacerbated by the increasing autonomy given to connected things. This paper reviews, via examples, the landscape of ethical issues, and some recent approaches to address these issues concerning connected things behaving autonomously as part of the Internet of Things. We consider ethical issues in relation to device operations and accompanying algorithms. Examples of concerns include unsecured consumer devices, data collection with health-related Internet of Things, hackable vehicles, behaviour of autonomous vehicles in dilemma situations, accountability with Internet of Things systems, algorithmic bias, uncontrolled cooperation among things, and automation affecting user choice and control. Current ideas towards addressing a range of ethical concerns are reviewed and compared, including programming ethical behaviour, white-box algorithms, black-box validation, algorithmic social contracts, enveloping IoT systems, and guidelines and code of ethics for IoT developers; a suggestion from the analysis is that a multi-pronged approach could be useful based on the context of operation and deployment.

scholarly journals Relationality or Hospitality in Twenty-First Century Research? Big Data, Internet of Things, and the Resilience of Coloniality on Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Artwell Nhemachena ◽  
Nokuthula Hlabangane ◽  
Maria B Kaundjua
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
African People ◽  
Relational Theories ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Data Subject ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Abstract African development will remain intractable in a world where Africans are conceived as constituting disorganised data subject to the supposedly organising gaze of knowledgeable Others. African people are increasingly datafied dehumanised and denied self-knowledge, self-mastery, self-organisation and data sovereignty. Arguing for more attention to questions of data sovereignty, this paper notes that the Internet of Things and Big Data threaten the autonomy, privacy, data and national sovereignty of indigenous Africans. It is contended that decolonial scholars should unpack ethical implications of theorising indigenous people in terms of relational theories that assume absence of distinctions between humans and nonhumans. Deemed to be indistinct from nonhumans/animals, Africans would be inserted or implanted with remotely controlled intelligent tracking technological devices that mine data from their brains, bodies, homes, cities and so on. Key words: relationality, Big Data, Internet of Things, coloniality, research  

scholarly journals Perceptions About Nursing Practice Based on the Internet of Things: A Survey of Nursing Managers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoma Seto ◽  
Ryosuke Hosaka ◽  
Kai Ishida ◽  
Atsushi Shibasaki ◽  
Masae Nakamoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Camera Systems ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of nursing managers about adopting nursing practices based on the Internet of Things and to examine related ethical issues. Questionnaires were sent to 538 nursing managers in Japan, with 131 responses. Of these, 87% and 33% agreed that a system using radio frequency identifiers would be useful for locating patients and nurses, respectively, 58%–81% recognized the value for patient safety of various camera systems for nursing observation, such as cameras linked to biometric alarms, 73% agreed the usefulness of automatically prioritizing alarms, but only around 39% were in favor of using facial recognition to help nursing observation. Many nursing managers expressed concerns about privacy. Data storage for at least 6 months was supported by 53% for location data and 41% for ceiling camera videos. Thus, nursing practice based on the Internet of Things is widely accepted in Japan.

scholarly journals Terrorism and the Internet of Things: Cyber-Terrorism as an Emergent Threat

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Adam Henschke
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

AbstractIn this chapter I present an argument that cyber-terrorism will happen. This argument is premised on the development of a cluster of related technologies that create a direct causal link between the informational realm of cyberspace and the physical realm. These cyber-enabled physical systems fit under the umbrella of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT). While this informational/physical connection is a vitally important part of the claim, a more nuanced analysis reveals five further features are central to the IoT enabling cyber-terrorism. These features are that the IoT is radically insecure, that the components of the IoT are in the world, that the sheer numbers of IoT devices mean potential attacks can be intense, that the IoT will likely be powered by a range of Artificial Intelligence aspects, making it inscrutable, and that the IoT is largely invisible. Combining these five factors together, the IoT emerges as a threat vector for cyber-terrorism. The point of the chapter is to go beyond recognising that the IoT is a thing in the world and so can enable physical impacts from cyber-attacks, to offer these five factors to say something more specific about just why the IoT can potentially be used for cyber-terrorism. Having outlined how the IoT can be used for cyber-terrorism, I attend to the question of whether such actions are actually terrorism or not. Ultimately, I argue, as the IoT grows in scope and penetration of our physical worlds and behaviours, it means that cyber-terrorism is not a question of if, but when. This, I suggest, has significant ethical implications as these five features of the IoT mean that we ought to be regulating these technologies.

scholarly journals The Internet of Things: Foundational ethical issues

2018 ◽  
Vol 1-2 ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Allhoff ◽  
Adam Henschke
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things
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