A lack of regulation for the data that products like smart watches and fitness trackers collect could translate into discrimination in the future and experts are calling for regulations, Computerworld reports. Santa Clara University’s Irina Raicu, CIPP/US, said, “The broader privacy concern is that information collected from various sources is increasingly being combined to create profiles from individual users and draw inferences about their future actions, preferences, etc." Forrester’s Fatemeh Khatibloo said regulations are needed “to encompass … egregious and discriminatory uses of data.” She added, “It has to be a government role; I don't think self-regulating trade bodies will do that effectively.”
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