No Information About Me Without Me: Technology, Privacy, and Home Monitoring

Monitoring technologies can hold tremendous promise for enabling elders to age in place, yet threaten their privacy, security, and autonomy. Are they Big Brothers or guardian angels? In this article, the author suggests that the answer will depend on their designs and uses and on whether the safeguards employed to avoid potential harm can do so without diminishing benefits-and the application of the principle "No information about me without me" to maintain elders' independence and privacy.