Have you heard about the Internet of things? If it is
industry's great opportunity, it might be the Privacy
Officer's brainteaser over the next few years.
Increasingly objects are becoming "smart". No human
intervention is required to record and communicate data, permitting
otherwise unconnected objects to interact with one another.
Objects are being embedded with a variety of sensors. These
objects collect information about their environment, their
operation, and their interaction with other objects. These devices
can communicate with each other and with databases through wireless
networks. All the of data that these objects collect and produce
becomes fodder for analysis in Big Data projects for understanding
complex systems.
