Wearable technologies

Courses GCSE Computer Science Ethics & Legalities Wearable technologies

Computers You Wear

AQA lists wearable technologies as an impact area: smart watches, fitness bands, AR glasses. They sit on the body all day, so they collect heart rate, steps, location and sometimes microphone or camera data without a deliberate “open the laptop” step.

Health insights and convenient payments are the benefit. The ethical cost is continuous monitoring. Employers or insurers might demand the data. A lost watch is a lost stream of personal measurements, not just a lost clock.

A privacy risk of wearables is

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Health Benefit versus Always-On Data

Benefit

A band can flag an unusual heart rate or count recovery after exercise. That can support medical advice if the wearer chose to share it.

Cost

The same stream tells a company when you sleep, run, and visit a hospital. Consent screens are easy to tap through and hard to revoke later.

Wearables collect [[body]] and [[location]] data because they are worn all day.

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Question Type: fill in the blanks

{"paragraph": "A lost wearable can leak [[personal]] measurements, not just the time of [[day]]."}

Question Type: short answer

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