Internet-of-things designers can shut down appliances to force behavior changes remotely.

Evidence

We can engineer the context around a particular behavior and force change that way. Context-aware data allow us to tie together your emotions, your cognitive functions, your vital signs, etcetera. We can know if you shouldn’t be driving, and we can just shut your car down. We can tell the fridge, “Hey, lock up because he shouldn’t be eating,” or we tell the TV to shut off and make you get some sleep, or the chair to start shaking because you shouldn’t be sitting so long, or the faucet to turn on because you need to drink more water. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 923

Categorization

• CANDY: The image of a chair shaking to stop you sitting too long is a light, shareable data point—quintessential surveillance-capitalism absurdity, accessible with zero context.
• STORYSTEM: A domestic-IOT horror story writes itself: appliances that judge and enforce a household’s supposed needs, stripping residents of agency inside their own homes—a near-future domestic dystopia.
• XREF: connects to: IoT sensors can modify human behavior as easily as device behavior — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 917; Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 751

Broader Connections

• IoT sensors can modify human behavior as easily as device behavior #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 917
• Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 751