Internet of Things
Stories
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How Your Air Fryer and Other Household Appliances Became Data Miners
“Smart” gadgets: the convenience you crave, with the surveillance you didn’t ask for.
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The Privacy Invasion of WiFi Signals
The pitch was that your lights would come on by themselves. The capability was that a machine could tell you apart from your roommate by the way you walk.
Boris Johnson Warns About Google Surveillance, Says Smart Tech Could Rein “Oppressively Over the Human Race”
Johnson’s speech was designed and delivered at the UN with the aim of securing international coordination in controlling and regulating new technologies in a thoughtful and “balanced” manner, reporters surmised from his address.
How the ePrivacy Regulation Could Impact Digital Marketing
It would repeal the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002 (ePrivacy Directive) and is lex specialis to the General Data Protection Regulation.
Alexa Should Testify in Court, Germany’s Federal Interior Ministry Says
They say that, at least for now, it should only be used for terrorist incidents and other serious crimes.
Smart Lock Makes Elderly Man a Prisoner in His Own Home
Do we control technology or does it control us?
Millions of Smart Devices Have Major Security Flaws
A new report from a security researcher highlights the extent of the problem.
Cyber Attacks on Smart Home Connected Devices Are Up 217.5% Year-On-Year
Current estimates are that 75 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by 2025, in other words, they will continue to provide ever bigger and more appealing attack vectors to hackers.
