Gilad Rosner on privacy in the age of the Internet of Things

The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Safeguarding against new privacy risks.

In this episode of the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast, Jeff Bleiel and I speak with Gilad Rosner, a privacy and information policy researcher, and the founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum.  Rosner is also the author of the recently-published free O’Reilly ebook, “Privacy and the Internet of Things.”

Discussion points:

Current concerns about how widely information collected by IoT devices will be shared
Current and future regulations affecting both governmental and private actors
Similarities and differences between privacy attitudes and laws in the U.S. and Europe
Why privacy is essential for the existence of democratic societies
What to expect in the near future in data protection regulation in both the U.S. and Europe

Links

The non-profit Online Trust Alliance
Privacy and surveillance researcher and writer Karen Levy, who has researched the impact of data collection on marginalized populations