Jamal Awil

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Sensors are used to modify people's behavior just as easily as they modify device. [fact]

Sensors are used to modify people's behavior just as easily as they modify device behavior. There are many great things we can do with the internet of things, like lowering the heat in all the houses on your street so that the transformer is not overloaded, or optimizing an entire industrial operation. But at the individual level, it also means the power to take actions that can override what you are doing or even put you on a path you did not choose.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 917