Criticism
As far as dissemination of information on personal presence is out of control, ambient intelligence vision is subject of criticism . Any immersive, personalized, context-aware and anticipatory characteristics brings up societal, political and cultural concerns about the loss of privacy, as soon as any third party gets control over the respective information and status data.
However, any disabled person may welcome the implicit information presentation and access to improve support and individual assistance. Hence there must be a distinction between solutions for personal improvement and any other purpose.
Power concentration in large organizations, a decreasingly private, fragmented society and hyperreal environments where the virtual is indistinguishable from the real (hyperreality) are the main topics of critics. Several research groups and communities are investigating the social-economical, political and cultural aspects of ambient intelligence. New thinking on Ambient Intelligence distances itself therefore from some of the original characteristics such as adaptive and anticipatory behaviour and emphasizes empowerment and participation to place control in the hands of people instead of organizations.
As long as there is no legal obligation to open one's individual status data to any access by third party, the degree of freedom
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