Ethical Issues Related to Smartwatch Devices

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Introduction
The growing interest in smartwatches has sparked major user privacy concerns. With the
advent of smart technology corporations are seeking for ways to gather and use personal
location, health as well as purchasing data collected by the wearable devices of their clients as
well as employees (Moore & Piwek, 2017). However, smart devices are raising eyebrows
because the wider piracy concern is that the collected information from different wearable
devices is greatly being combined to create profits from individual users. In addition smart
devices have the ability to drawing inferences regarding individual users’ future preferences and
actions among others.
Ethical issues related to Smartwatch Devices
Wearable devices store huge volumes of personal data which can be accessed by third parties
without user consent, which creates ethical issues about security, privacy and informed consent.
Data collected from smart devices is being used for selling ads and generating revues without
user’s consent.
Analysis of Ethical Issues related to Smartwatch Devices
In the case of Mobile Device Management (MDM) ability has become the cornerstone
driver of interest in enterprise mobility products. It is unfortunate that the tools have transformed
into full-brown enterprise mobility management (EMM) suites that include data security and
applications to mention a few. Despite the fact that these offerings cover the basics in regard to
hardware management there is a difference when it comes to certain extended mobile
management features. EMM platforms aid organizations to secure their mobile infrastructure and
control device policies as well as managing mobile content, networks, apps and services, and

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overseeing expenses connected to mobile policies, communication services and identity
management (Moore & Piwek, 2017). Similar to the way MDM were able to evolve to EMM is
the case to EMM, which has evolved into unified endpoint management (UEM). Unified
endpoint management is a strategic approach that consolidates the manner in which
organizations manage an array of deployed devices ranging from tablets, phones and PCs. UEM
then delivers reliable data into the state of devices as well as apps that are used by workers and
insight into identity regarding the way the apps and hardware are being utilized for purposes of
increasing cross-functional workflows.
Impact of Wearable Smart Devices on Business and Society
With regard to the corporate interest in wearables it is raising an increased concern over
personal privacy. A research conducted by data privacy management company Truste in the
recent past found that over 90% of the United States Internet users are worried about their online
privacy. Consequently, more than 90% of these people said that they would avoid firms that fail
to safeguard their customer’s privacy (Kalantari, 2017). The challenging aspect with
smartwatches is because they are relatively a novel technology in its infancy and its popularity is
not clear to most buyers and how their private data can end being used as well as the potential
threats related to it. According to the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC),
smartwatches location data amongst other wearables is potentially not secure since the Bluetooth
or GPS scanner can be used to track an individual’s whereabouts when the device is separated
from a smartphone (Cheng & Mitomo, 2017). Hence, smartwatches can make it easier to
tracking a person.