Here in the US, we've recently become
aware that the government (that is, the National Security Agency)
is collecting metadata on every phone call made in the US. It's
unclear the extent to which the NSA is also collecting information
about other forms of electronic communications such as emails,
tweets, text messages, web browsing habits, etc..
Many people seem to be OK with this if it can help the government
detect possible terrorist activities. Others are calling for more
transparency and less secrecy with respect to government policies
for conducting electronic surveillance of its citizens (and
others).
Now we have the Internet of Things, which proposes that all of our
everyday devices should be connected to the Internet. It's not
hard to imagine that the possibilities for additional surveillance
are increased when all our devices are networked and talking to
each other.
Before I'm going to allow my bathroom scale to talk to my
refrigerator, I want to know whether the government might be
listening in. If the government can override my personal privacy
preferences in the name of safety or national security, I'd like
to know about it. If we're going to have an Internet of Things,
I'd call for the same transparency with respect to government
surveillance policies that may exist for interconnected consumer
devices that I believe should exist for other kinds of electronic
surveillance of citizens that the government may feel is
necessary.
Bob Pinheiro
On 6/12/2013 4:24 AM, Joni Brennan wrote:
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
[2] http://kantarainitiative.org/privacy-and-security-iot/
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