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NIST Provides Important Guidance For IOT Industry | Mintz – Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints – JDSupra

More prevalent than ever before, Internet of Things (“IOT”) devices, a term that includes connected “smart” devices, such as internet connected TVs, wearables, smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, are fast becoming a staple of how we interact with each other, and obtain and consume entertainment and information. We have previously written about California’s legislation requiring manufacturers to provide reasonable security features “appropriate to the nature and function of the device, appropriate to the information it may collect, contain, or transmit, [and] designed to protect the device and any information contained therein from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.”

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