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Internet of Things – Italian telecom authority seeks inputs

The Internet of Things (IoT) will enable devices to communicate and share data with one another and data to be combined and used across multiple applications. ย However, such applications also raise relevant legal issues. ย The Italian Telecom Authority (AGCOM) has for this purpose just launched a consultation on the Internet of Things in order to understand how to better foster this market whose value will reach $ 7.1 trillion in sales by 2020. ย 

Wearables, watch your hands!

$ 3 billion will be spent in 2014 on 10 million units of wearable technologies according to a Deloitte report, but the potentials of this market can be seen also through the attempts by tech companies to patent anything connected to them, including the heart gesture made in front of Google Glasses so setting a new approach for the Internet of Things! ย 

Wearables and privacy issues, how to find the balance?

Wearables and the Internet of Things are one of the most discussed at the moment with a considerable potential impact on our approach to technologies in the next years.ย But, with the huge amount of personal data relating to users as well as images/sounds on the people/events around him collected by means of such devices and the possibility to very easily share them on the Internet, the impact on privacy rights of these technologies will require a careful review.