Refrigerators automatically doing grocery shopping for you on
your drive home from work and cell phone attachments measuring
glucose levels don’t necessarily seem like bad things. But
with the explosion of cutting-edge smart devices and applications
comes the mounting data privacy concerns of the so-called
“Internet of Things.”
The “Internet of Things” refers to the dramatically
growing capacity of devices to communicate information efficiently
through the Internet. The most common example – mobile
devices – has now become an extension of ourselves: waking us
up to start the day, being an arm’s reach away at night, and
being essential to day-to-day activities.
The FTC will hold a public workshop November 21, 2013, to
address concerns over the “Internet of Things,” as an
increasing amount of smart devices permeate the market. In advance
of the workshop, two public interest groups – Electronic
Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) and Center for
Digital Democracy
