Editor Introduction
Technology can be a powerful tool, but it can also be misused. Ethical principles help ensure that technology is used in a way that minimizes risks and avoids causing harm to people or society. Issues could include factors such as data privacy and algorithmic bias of certain technologies. As the security industry embraces advanced and evolving technologies, we asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What are the biggest ethical considerations of using emerging technologies in physical security?
Daniel Reichman
Ai-RGUS
Many of the emerging technologies in physical security revolve around collecting data, analyzing data, and making decisions based on that data. This brings up considerations of data privacy and whether it is important to identify people in images or whether knowledge of there is a person or a car at a certain place and time is enough. It also brings up whether decisions are automatically made based on this data and how fair the rules engine is in making its decisions, e.g., how is the decision made to grant a person access to a building based on an image of the person trying to enter?
Editor: Larry Anderson
April 4, 2024
Security Informed