Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Privacy and the Internet of Things |
| author | Gilad Rosner |
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| ISBN-13 | 978-1-491-93282-7 |
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| date | 2017-May-05 |
Whether we like it or not, the Internet of Thing is coming, coming in a massively larger scale than most of us imagine. And with it come also a lot of privacy challenges. While you might be OK with your car communicating technical vehicle health data back to the manufacturer, what about data tracking all your motorized movements? Do you agree with your employer having access to the data generated by your health monitoring wristband?
What we deem acceptable and what not changes with circumstances, culture, intended use, etc. and it even changes over time. So there is not one correct way to protect privacy, be it with the Internet of Things or elsewhere.
This report shines a light on the issue from different angles. First it shows that "IoT" is not one clearly defined technology, but a banner for a variety of definitions and trends. Then Gilad Rosner does a splendid job of explaining what we conceive as privacy and shows that privacy and security are two different things, before going into the specific privacy risks that come with the land of IoT. There is also a chapter talking about the different ways of privacy protection (mandatory vs. optional, law vs. self-regulation, etc. before coming to the methods available to protect privacy.
All in all a very well researched report which gives a lot of insight in not only privacy related to the IoT, but is helpful in general to think about an help address privacy concerns in technology.
