Addicted to Apps: 'We cannot rely on the makers of new technology to think about the moral and privacy implications'

By artappraiser on Sat, 08/24/2013 - 9:14pm |

By Claire Cain Miller, news analysis, New York Times Sunday Review, Aug. 24/25, 2013

[....] The first day I used Google Now, my phone buzzed to tell me I needed to leave in 15 minutes for my restaurant reservation, because there was traffic on the way.

The thing is, I had never told my phone I had a reservation. Or where I was, or the route I planned to take. Google had spotted the OpenTable reservation in my Gmail in-box, knew my phone’s location and checked Google Maps for traffic conditions.

I was creeped out [....]

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sunday-review/addicted-to-apps.html?hp