Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in devices such as activity trackers, smartphones and smartwatches, are threatening the privacy of people's health data, finds a study led by an Indian-origin researcher, arguing that current laws and regulations do not safeguard individuals' confidential health information.
The findings, led by University of California - Berkeley engineer Anil Aswani, showed that by using AI it is possible to identify individuals by learning daily patterns in step data such as that collected by activity trackers, smartwatches and smartphones, and correlating it to demographic data.