Nt1330 Unit 7 Analysis

Unit 7 Discussion Assignment What security concerns do you have in regards to society moving toward artificial digital assistance running nearly everything? There are many advantages of using artificial intelligence (AI), being a convenience for information or even automating some tasks. This could range from finding information such as weather, scheduling tasks, and evening assisting the user in seeking information that is required. While there are many advances, there are also some security concerns as AI usage increases exponentially. This brings with it, two key concerns, what data is being collected, and how it is going to use this data. In short, we must ask ourselves whether AI digital assistants such as Google’s Alexa, or Apple’s Siri, …show more content…
For digital assistants to be able to carry out the function they do, it is necessary to record conversations, searches, and images along with other information such as our location, and even track our behaviors. Because these devices connect to our smartphones, which allows such digital assistants to track some key metrics (Dara, 2019). Another concern is that they are prone to technical and even security vulnerabilities. If we imagine that a third party was able to access information via a vulnerability, we have a second concern. For example, there was a case in Germany where a user was able to access the Alexa recordings of another user, unknown to him. He was able to access enough information about that user to reach out and gain a good picture of the stranger. It started when one user attempted to access his data, under the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection) legislation. Owing to a flaw, he gained this information on another user (Dark Reading, 2018). What this case does illustrate, is that we are not aware of how much data is being collected on us daily, and it can certainly be interpreted as an invasion of our

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