Consider the potential impact of gamification and wearable devices on your career. How do you feel about the tracking of employees and the monitoring of your vital functions on the job and outside the workplace?

Can you think of other vulnerable technologies? What advice would you give someone who is not sure how to handle invasive technologies that may threaten privacy and security? As one expert put it: “We are living in the digital equivalent of the Wild Wild West and big data is a wide open frontier full of opportunity but fraught with unknown hazards and potentially deadly pitfalls.”83

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