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Emerging Technologies and Sample Solutions
- Human recognition and identification
- Ubiquitous video
- Ubiquitous data sharing
- Information capturing tools
- Positioning technology
- Personal care
4. Information capturing tools
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- Professional Assistants (“RADAR”)
- Personal Diary (“Lifelog,” “Informedia”)
- Speech recognition
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- RADAR will provide automated clerical assistance –scheduling meetings, allocating resources, creating coherent reports from snippets of information, and managing email by grouping related messages, flagging high priority requests and automatically proposing answers to routine messages.
- Intelligent recall of one’s past
- Speech recognition
- Educating deaf students
- Airline reservations
- Access to foreign language
- Medical transcription of clinical notes (and other dictation)
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- RADAR: Revealing sensitive information about the user while communicating with others.
- RADAR: Not allowing specifications for or enforcing privacy preferences
- RADAR: to enable research, needs access to archives of personal email messages
- Sharing information beyond the control of the user
- Revealing sensitive information about others whose information is captured.
- Recording others without their consent and providing no opt-out option
- Speech recognition: Increased number of wiretaps due to reduced effort for transcription.
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| Video and Sound Opt-Out |
A variety of technical options are provided for others to opt-out of recordings.
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| Text Anonymizer |
Sufficiently de-identify textual documents requires much more than the removal of explicit identifiers such as name and address to meet legal standards for sharing. Text anonymization provides scientific assurances that resulting text are sufficiently de-identified.
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| Privacy Agent |
Privacy Agent is a an intelligent privacy guard that observes email, web and other electronic communications to make sure a person's privacy "intentions" are respected. The guard is against inferences that can be drawn from seemingly innocent information freely given.
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- A. Video, wiretapping and surveillance
- D. Employment, workplace privacy
- E. Educational records privacy
- F. Copyright law
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