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Emerging Technologies and Sample Solutions

  1. Human recognition and identification
  2. Ubiquitous video
  3. Ubiquitous data sharing
  4. Information capturing tools
  5. Positioning technology
  6. Personal care

6. Personal care

Technologies 
  • Personal Robots
  • Intelligent Spaces
  • CareMedia


Benefits to Society   Privacy Concerns Voiced
  • Improved Geriatric Care
  • Improved Standard of Living
  • Improved Health Care Industry
  • Doctor/Patient Confidentiality
  • Workplace privacy issues arise for staff
  • Bodily privacy issues arise for patients
  • Patient’s consent and opt-out option of room-wide monitoring
  • Information captured on visitors and others
  • Captured information shared without consent.


SolutionDescription
Face de-identification See Group 1 [ref]
  
Video Footprinter See Group 2
  
Video Blobber See Group 2
  
Video Counting and Reporting Behaviors See Group 2
  
Video and Sound Opt-Out See Group 4
  
Semantic Web Technologies to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness (eWallet) See Group 3
  
Privacy Agent See Group 4


Privacy Impact 
  • A. Video, wiretapping and surveillance
  • B. Civil liberties, illegal search
  • C. Medical privacy
  • D. Employment, workplace privacy
  • E. Educational records privacy


More on Technology Group Overview, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6


Summer 2003 [webmaster@dataprivacylab.org] Privacy Technology Center