Security: The IoT is destroying legal concept of privacy warns in-depth report | Internet of Business
THE BIG READ A new report cautions that the Internet of Things may undermine the concept of personal privacy to such an extent that even our private thoughts and conversations may belong to advertisers. But what can the industry do about it? Chris Middleton offers his own analysis.
The Internet of Things will expand the constant data collection practices of the online world into the offline one, according to a new report on the data privacy implications of connected technologies.
This will enable and normalise preference and behaviour tracking offline, it says, to such an extent that “the very notion of an offline world may begin to decline”.
The detailed, 150-page document, Clearly Opaque: Privacy Risks of the IoT (2018), has been published by the Internet of Things Privacy Forum. The international nonprofit organisation produces guidance, analysis, research, and best practice for industry and governments on reducing privacy risks through responsible innovation.