By: Foster Kamer
February 11, 2019
Thought Theft
If augmented reality becomes a part of our daily lives, the data it collects about you will become valuable: an incredibly detailed psychological portrait, and one that’s prone to terrifying exploitation if it falls into the wrong hands.
“You are always worried about bad actors with technology and your data,” said Paula Goldman, a VP at Omidyar Network, a firm that advises on ethically-sound technological development, in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal. “With AR, it is incredibly scary: the kind of data that can be collected, how you react to what you’re seeing, deep psychological data.”