Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence
Foreword by Emile Aarts
Foreword by Gary T. Marx
Acknowledgements
Preface
An Executive Summary for Hasty Readers
1 Introduction
1.1 From ubiquitous computing to ambient intelligence
1.2 Challenges from the deployment of ambient intelligence
1.3 Challenges from ambient intelligence for EUpolicy-making
1.4 The challenges of this book
2 The brave new world of ambient intelligence
2.1 Enabling technologies
2.1.1 Ubiquitous computing
2.1.2 Ubiquitous communications
2.1.3 User-friendly interfaces
2.1.4 mbedded intelligence
2.1.5 Sensors and actuators
2.2 AmI visions
2.3 Scenarios
2.4 Roadmaps
2.5 Strategic research agendas
2.6 Platforms
2.7 Projects
2.8 Prospects
3 Dark scenarios
3.1 Creating and analysing dark scenarios
3.1.1 Framing the scenario
3.1.2 Identifying the technologies and/or devices
3.1.3 Identifying the applications
3.1.4 Drivers
3.1.5 Issues
3.1.6 Legal synopsis
3.1.7 Conclusions
3.2 Scenario 1: The AmI family
3.2.1 The scenario script
3.2.2 Analysis
3.2.3 The context
3.2.4 AmI technologies and devices
3.2.5 AmI applications
3.2.6 Drivers
3.2.7 Issues
3.2.8 Legal synopsis
3.2.9 Conclusions
3.3 Scenario 2: A crash in AmI space
3.3.1 The scenario script
3.3.2 Analysis
3.3.3 The context
3.3.4 AmI technologies and devices
3.3.5 AmI applications
3.3.6 Drivers
3.3.7 Issues
3.3.8 Legal synopsis
3.3.9 Conclusions
3.4 Scenario 3: What's an AmI data aggregator to do?
3.4.1 The scenario script
3.4.2 Analysis
3.4.3 The context
3.4.4 AmI technologies and devices
3.4.5 AmI applications
3.4.6 Drivers
3.4.7 Issues
3.4.8 Legal synopsis
3.4.9 Conclusions
3.5 Scenario 4: An early morning TV programme reports on AmI
3.5.1 The scenario script
3.5.2 Analysis
3.5.3 The context
3.5.4 AmI technologies and devices
3.5.5 Applications
3.5.6 Drivers
3.5.7 Issues Contents
3.5.8 Legal synopsis
3.5.9 Conclusions
4 Threats and vulnerabilities
4.1 Privacy under attack
4.2 Identity: Who goes there?
4.3 Can I trust you?
4.4 An insecure world
4.5 The looming digital divide
4.6 Threats today and tomorrow too
4.6.1 Hackers and malware
4.6.2 Identity theft
4.6.3 Penetration of identity management systems
4.6.4 Function creep
4.6.5 Exploitation of linkages by industry and government
4.6.6 Surveillance
4.6.7 Profiling
4.6.8 Authentication may intrude upon privacy
4.7 Lots of vulnerabilities
4.7.1 System complexity, false positives and unpredictable failures
4.7.2 Lack of user-friendly security and configuration software
4.7.3 Personal devices: networking with limited resources
4.7.4 Lack of transparency
4.7.5 High update and maintenance costs
4.7.6 Uncertainties about what to protect and the costs of protection
4.7.7 Misplaced trust in security mechanisms
4.7.8 Lack of public awareness or concern about privacy rights
4.7.9 Lack of enforcement and erosion of rights
4.7.10 People do not take adequate security precautions
4.7.11 Loss of control and technology paternalism
4.7.12 Dependency
4.7.13 Unequal access and voluntary exclusion
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