IOT - Privacy
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Accès aux données dans le cloud : l'UE confrontée au Patriot Act américain
Les membres du Parlement européen veulent savoir quelle attitude les législateurs comptent adopter dans le conflit qui oppose la directive européenne sur la protection des données (Directive 95/46/EC) au Patriot Act américain. Cette question a été soulevée suite à un aveu fait la semaine dernière par Microsoft : l'entreprise pourrait déplacer les données de clients européens vers un nouveau service cloud sous autorité américaine. La firme de Redmond pourrait également être contrainte par le Patriot Act de garder le secret sur tout transfert de ce type.
European Union Signs Internet of Things Privacy Framework
The executive body of the European Union signed an agreement today titled Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessment (PIA) Framework for RFID Applications (PDF), intended to safeguard consumer privacy and offer assurances to citizens that RFID [Radio Frequency Identification] and connected devices are safe for industry to develop. The agreement creates a four-step process for assessment of new tracking applications, basically requiring that risks, mitigation strategies and remaining costs in terms of privacy all be articulated explicitly whenever a new system that tracks a previously unconnected object or device is brought to market. ReadWriteWeb has covered developments in the Internet of Things space for several years, in the belief that sensors and connected devices will join the tidal wave of data produced by online social networks to create a large pool of information resources available for development of new software, services and analysis.Droit et réalité augmentée
Avec le « boom » des applications pour Smartphones, et le développement toujours plus étendu des outils informatiques, la « réalité augmentée » devient un concept significatif de la vie quotidienne. D’abord, qu'est-ce que la réalité augmentée ? Elle consiste à superposer à des images issues du « monde réel » des informations provenant du monde numérique, et tout ceci, en « live ». Par exemple, si nous sommes en train de filmer un monument avec un téléphone connecté à internet, de nouvelles fenêtres vont apparaître à l'écran, nous donnant des renseignements sur l'histoire du monument et sur les centres d'intérêt alentour : restaurants, musées, métro le plus proche, etc. Ce mélange d'images virtuelles et réelles donne l'illusion que deux univers fusionnent, c'est ce qu'on appelle la " réalité augmentée ".
Every Machine Can Be Used To Watch You. Interested in Privacy?
What if your activities were watched and recorded so we could not only catch you for any crime but could maximize how much money we make selling you stuff? An editorial by Toby Considine over at Automated Buildings suggests that this is fast becoming the future we're moving into. Considine gives one example of a British murder conviction that was based on evidence obtained via Electrical Network Frequency Analysis (ENF) . While detectives have long been rendering this kind of data by deciphering faint signals from the machines we use, what's new is the huge increase in devices that can be monitored. The cost to capture and store data continues to drop, too.
I keep making blog posts and podcasts about the emerging world of sensor data (the Internet of Things) and alluding to the need to figure out privacy policies and considerations. I will allude no more! It’s time to start thinking explicitly about this stuff and drawing out the boundaries of our collective conversation about it.
Privacy & the Age of Sensors: Preliminary Thoughts About Internet of Things Policies & Practices
Earlier today, ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus examined the future of social objects - that is, the future of the Internet of Things . This slow-growing trend encompasses how real-world objects are connected to the Internet using various technologies, including RFID chips, barcodes, sensors, bots and, to some extent, even mobile applications like Glue , which attaches a social history of sorts to an object like a book or a bottle of wine, albeit somewhat virtually. While on the one hand, the idea of these self-aware "social objects" is intriguing, especially when you examine use cases like the "social tennis racquet," as MacManus did , there is a flip side. Social objects can tattle on you, reporting data you don't wish to share. Case in point: a reader on technology news site TechDirt alerted them to a city initiative in Cleveland, Ohio, where RFID chips are being placed on recycling bins to monitor whether or not the bin has been taken to the curb.
How the Internet of Things May be Used Against You
Abstract: Electronic recording and surveillance systems are arguably some of the most pervasive technologies in the world today. Despite this rapid proliferation and their study by many researchers, there is still work to be done in understanding how people reason about these technologies when they encounter them. In this article, the authors describe attitudes, perceptions, and concerns regarding electronic recording encountered in daily activities. They present data gathered from interviews grounded in real experiences that form the basis of a discussion for how people develop mental models about the intent and uses of a broad scope of recording technologies embedded in the world. Individual constructions of reality about current recording systems, including the people, places, and activities that surround them, provide insight into how design, technology, and policy can work together to provide appropriate information about the existence and uses of recording devices.
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BBC News - How to cope when the world can watch everything you do
Warhol's prediction about fame my prove troubling for many In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol declared that in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. As with many other predictions, it has not quite turned out like that. Some fear that given what technology is about to do to us, 15 minutes might feel like a blessed relief. Social networks such as Facebook and micro-blogging services such as Twitter have begun a trend which could see more and more of the information about us viewable more of the time. Add to that wider use of video cameras, sensors, RFID tags, geotags and other smart systems and we face a future in which we are under scrutiny all the time.
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