ABSTRACT
We have entered the era of the Internet of Things, in which people and the objects in our environment are loaded with sensors, gathering and communicating vast amounts of data about the world. Architects need to deal with the phenomenon of Big Data, and a physical environment full of sensors continually gathering information about human behavior, environmental conditions, and the operations of equipment. While this data-rich environment can help us understand our world more accurately and promise to show the consequences of our actions more thoroughly, ethics demands that we ask for whom, for what end, and to whose benefit this data is being collected.
