Experts: Privacy and security must be ‘baked in’ as IoT grows
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The more the Internet of Things permeates everyday life, the more privacy and security need to be baked into the design of products from their inception, government officials and private sector experts said at the massive CES event Wednesday.
A panel discussion focused on how protecting data is going to become increasingly important as more and more of our everyday objects are connected to the Internet and collecting information.
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Nuala O’Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, cited positive examples of how being proactive about privacy and security has materialized during early design stages. She helped work on the privacy policy governing Amazon Echo, the online retailer’s Internet-connected speaker/virtual assistant.
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“How do we let people know they are engaging with this device?” O’Connor said Amazon people had asked. She critiqued the current corporate conception of privacy policies: “We are not going to [send] a piece of paper in the mail that says ‘This is what we are doing with the data.’”
