THE RISE OF IOT & MACHINE LEARNING – A MORAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMA

The growth of the digital economy has brought about different waves of technology, with the next one being a wave of connectivity. Computing has moved from the traditional desktop models to series of networks known as the Internet of Things (IOT). What this shift in paradigm means for us is that many of the objects that surrounds us will be on a network in one form or another. This recent development has doubled the research on sensor network technologies and advancement in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), to enable the invisible connection of information and communications systems. Driven by the prevalence and proliferation of smart devices enabled by open wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and RFID, the IOT is an evolution of the internet as we know it, into a network of interconnected equipment, objects and systems.