mann vivien's List: intelligence ambiante

Le recueil d'informations sur les personnes a connu une montée en puissance à mesure que les utilisateurs eux-mêmes participaient à la diffusion de ces informations, et c'est l'un des paradoxes de ce que l'on nomme le web 2.0 ; les informations confiées volontairement par les utilisateurs au travers des blogs et des « réseaux sociaux » comme MySpace, Facebook et autres LinkedIn pourraient à terme créer les conditions d'une crise de confiance massive à mesure que ces réseaux pourront remettre en cause… la vie sociale de leurs usagers.

Mireille Hildebrandt and Serge Gutw

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Document de réflexion conjoint du comité d’experts « Informatique Ambiante » du département ST2I du CNRS et du Groupe de Travail  « Intelligence Ambiante » du Groupe de Concertation Sectoriel (GCS3) du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, DGRI A3 
Version 1.2 finale – 14 octobre 2008
Joëlle Coutaz, James L. Crowley

Une interview d'Adam Greenfield sur « l'informatique ubiquitaire » à venir. Par Cyril de Graeve et Ariel Kyrou.
Auteur du concept "everyware".

While recent surveys often cite people who have experienced some form of privacy invasion, the exact nature of such invasions remains elusive. Yet in order to build ubiquitous computing systems that will respect the privacy of the individual, it is crucial to understand when it is exactly that people feel their privacy has been invaded. This paper motivates why privacy is necessary, describes an approach called privacy boundaries that tries to capture the various reasons a certain flow of personal information is perceived threatening, and looks briefly at how ubiquitous computing intensifies these problems.

This paper tries to serve as an introductory reading to privacy issues in the field of ubiquitous computing. It develops six principles for guiding system design, based on a set of fair information practices common in most privacy legislation in use today: notice, choice and consent, proximity and locality, anonymity and pseudonymity, security, and access and recourse. A brief look at the history of privacy protection, its legal status, and its expected utility is provided as a background

The intrinsic value of information coupled with the dramatically falling costs of networked sensors suggest that ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing are inevitable. However, before society resigns itself to a world of constant observation and tracking, a process of moralization and ethical deliberation should occur. In this paper we examine the ethical implications of choosing camera networks or infrared motion detector networks. We employ the Dimensional Metaethics approach to help us structure examination of the complex issues involved. The analysis indicates that choice of sensor technology can powerfully affect the ethical landscape surrounding the final system. This paper also analyzes empirical results from questionnaires that asked participants to rate and choose between scenarios involving pan-tilt-zoom cameras and infrared sensors. In testing against a hypothetical even split in opinion, we find instead a significant preference for the scenario involving infrared sensors (p = 0.007). The results show that significant proportion (73%, p = 0.05) preferred a scenario with infrared sensors when compared to pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Participants also report that the scenario with infrared sensors was significantly less invasive and expressed a significantly weaker preference toward situations “Without Sensors that Collect Information About Location ” (when compared with the scenario involving pan-tilt-zoom cameras). In short, we find that both dimensional metaethics and questionnaire results suggest that infrared sensors are better.

Un entretien avec Jeanne Bossi, Secrétaire Générale et Jean-François Parguet, Responsable du pôle Architecture, référentiel et sécurité & RSSI, Asip Santé

Un rapport publié par Cylab, Université Carnegie Mellon, révèle que le vol d'identité affecte les enfants aux États-Unis.