Wearable Computing Challenges and opportunities for privacy protection Report prepared by the Research Group of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Table of Contents Introduction. [...] For example, they: have a visual appeal;11 can be seamlessly integrated with the wearer’s clothing, body or linked to a smart phone; can be customized and adapted to the needs of the user and provide feedback; can supplement the user’s own physical or mental abilities; are relatively low cost for the benefit derived; are versatile and have a wide variety of personal and workplace appli [...] More importantly, the device uses the wearer’s smart phone to link Source: Shutterstock to a cloud application which evaluates the data and provides advice to follow and gives the user an ability to share the results with his or her community. [...] When it reacts with stomach juices, it sends a signal to a patch on the patient’s skin, which relays the information to a smart phone which in turn relays the information to the doctor’s office.58 This provides the capability to report back to patients, health providers, family members and researchers on whether patients take their medicine and how it affects them.59. [...] For example, the opportunity to filter out parts of the user’s environment as experienced through the device could enhance user autonomy.83 By filtering advertising to only those advertisements that the user wishes to be shown, in the way they want to receive them, wearable computing devices could create a more comfortable environment that the user can design and control.
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