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IBM propose ‘digital guardians’ to protect us online via IBM

IBM have released this promotional video about a prediction/ proposal for personalised software agents that have access to all your data and know everything about you, even the data streaming from your car. The goal is to give this agent so much access and knowledge about you, it would spot any irregularities and assume identity theft or some sort of hacker intrusion is taking place. They say this bot would then 'take action’ (whatever they mean by that is only illustrated by the guardian firmly gripping the wrist of a masked robber). Ironically the proposal is intended as a means to protect your information by giving away all your information to your trusted guardian, with so much trust, that they go as far as proposing passwords won’t be necessary, your guardian will know its you and would be in charge of letting you into your accounts.