Is Your Smartwatch Sharing Too Much
Anonymous data gathered from wearables such as smartwatches could be used to discover users’ personal information, researchers say. Key Takeaways Researchers say they were able to use artificial intelligence to uncover personal information from health data collected by wearables. The study raises privacy concerns about what could happen to information that’s collected by wearables, experts say. Health data that are discovered by AI could potentially be used to discriminate. Wielding artificial intelligence, investigators were able to scan huge amounts of information collected from wearables and discern users’ height, weight, sex, age, and other characteristics, according to a recently released paper by scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Alan Turing Institute....