1.10- Wearable technology has been on the rise lately with the development of all the new smart watches, health trackers, smart glasses, and other wearable technology. For the most part, back when these wearable technology were still in development not many people were exposed to technology that tracked what you were doing on a daily basis. We had smart phones and other cellular devices that could track the lifestyle we live, but these wearable technologies brought in a whole different perspective. Some wearable devices monitor our activity levels, heart rate, sleeping patterns, etc. Having these wearable devices that can record data about us is quite fascinating. If this data were to be leaked out to the public and people with bad intent find
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Some other wearable devices allow us to capture photos, like the google glasses for instance. Being able to record every little thing we see brings up a lot of privacy issues. This brings up a lot of social problems as well. For instance, usually recording people requires a consent or is an invasion of their privacy, but wearable technology could be used to record people without them ever being aware that they were recorded. My biggest concern is that if a person is able to hack into these wearable technologies or find information about other people it becomes a very big issue. Not only do these wearable technology records more detail about us, you can even see exactly what the user does through the use of photography and people’s locations can be tracked through the use of the GPS on these smart wearable devices. Overall, privacy becomes the main concern when owning one of these wearable technologies & you don’t really know if having these devices is worth the privacy issues that it comes …show more content…
They would not be able to obtain a prepaid cellphone to make any calls at all or vice versa if a person were to go out of the US and they wanted to purchase a prepaid cellphone in a different country but couldn’t due to the fact they don’t have a valid ID in the country that they are in. A good thing for the passage of this law is that it would greatly lower the amount of terrorists, identity thieves, and any other criminals that could use this to
Some other wearable devices allow us to capture photos, like the google glasses for instance. Being able to record every little thing we see brings up a lot of privacy issues. This brings up a lot of social problems as well. For instance, usually recording people requires a consent or is an invasion of their privacy, but wearable technology could be used to record people without them ever being aware that they were recorded. My biggest concern is that if a person is able to hack into these wearable technologies or find information about other people it becomes a very big issue. Not only do these wearable technology records more detail about us, you can even see exactly what the user does through the use of photography and people’s locations can be tracked through the use of the GPS on these smart wearable devices. Overall, privacy becomes the main concern when owning one of these wearable technologies & you don’t really know if having these devices is worth the privacy issues that it comes …show more content…
They would not be able to obtain a prepaid cellphone to make any calls at all or vice versa if a person were to go out of the US and they wanted to purchase a prepaid cellphone in a different country but couldn’t due to the fact they don’t have a valid ID in the country that they are in. A good thing for the passage of this law is that it would greatly lower the amount of terrorists, identity thieves, and any other criminals that could use this to