Comments on: Homeland Security Developing Smartphone Tech That Sniffs Deadly Chemicals http://inhabitat.com/homeland-security-developing-smartphone-tech-that-sniffs-deadly-chemicals/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: hckr4evr http://inhabitat.com/homeland-security-developing-smartphone-tech-that-sniffs-deadly-chemicals/comment-page-1/#comment-219204 hckr4evr Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:23:18 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=104921#comment-219204 I wonder how long it will take before the data from those phones is used against their owners and perhaps even those in surrounding areas. For example, imagine Johnny, a recreational weed smoker, lighting up a joint and being busted for possession a few minutes later. Or Sue, who happens to be diagnosed with lung cancer, but is denied coverage by her health insurance company because the environment she works in is smoke laden, even though she doesn't smoke cigarettes. Such monitoring technology can indeed be useful and even life-saving, but a person's relative right to privacy can be violated very easily. I wonder how long it will take before the data from those phones is used against their owners and perhaps even those in surrounding areas. For example, imagine Johnny, a recreational weed smoker, lighting up a joint and being busted for possession a few minutes later. Or Sue, who happens to be diagnosed with lung cancer, but is denied coverage by her health insurance company because the environment she works in is smoke laden, even though she doesn’t smoke cigarettes.

Such monitoring technology can indeed be useful and even life-saving, but a person’s relative right to privacy can be violated very easily.

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