Dear Kantara Community, Recently Kantara Initiative Trustees, Members and Participants provided their international and industry expertise to develop a brief response to a call for input by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [1] regarding privacy and security implications of the Internet of Things (IoT). Pervasive implementation the IoT, and access control of associated data, will have significant implications with regard to Identity Management use cases and beyond. Kantara Initiative intends to address these implications through its network of experts and programs. The full response can be read on our Kantara blog [2]. We thank our stakeholders for their excellent input and we're looking forward to a workshop focusing on IoT that is being planned by FTC for the fall 2013. Please feel free to share the response with interested parties. We are very interested to hear feedback that can be shared on this list or via our contact form [3]. Joni Brennan Executive Director Kantara Initiative [1] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/04/internetthings.shtm [2] http://kantarainitiative.org/privacy-and-security-iot/ [3] bit.ly/contact_kantara