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ARTICLE · 21 JANUARY 2019

Smart Homes And New (IT) Housemates (Part 2)

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In our previous post on Smart homes and new (IT) housemates (Part 1), we addressed how AI and digital transformation can in fact be applied in our everyday life.

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In our previous post on Smart homes and new (IT) housemates (Part 1), we addressed how AI and digital transformation can in fact be applied in our everyday life. Digital home assistants are becoming increasingly popular, involving in their value chain a number of stakeholders, with a number of players involved—from software developers to the actual hardware manufacturers, distributors, retailers, etc.

This may further lead to the data being shared and used for different purposes without the data subject being aware of it.

In fact, the home assistant collects information from interaction with other devices in the house and from the contacts of the mobile device synchronized to the system. Therefore, the user is not always in a position to decide which type of information s/he wants to share with the home assistant: this depends on how the information is gathered. By way of example, the user can decide whether to share the content of the mobile but s/he has no

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