Internet of Things security? Start with who owns the data

From: The Register

Cambridge Wireless event chews the fat over key questions

Gareth Corfield

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Speaking to an audience of about 50 network industry executives this afternoon, Phipps highlighted three security challenges for the IoT: data loss, particularly with last week’s Yahoo! hack of half a billion user accounts; hijacking, such as the controversial Jeep hack published a little while ago; and consumer products, particularly, with the latter, medical device hacks of items including pacemakers and insulin pumps.

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Take the example of a body-worn sensor such as a Fitbit health monitor which generates data about you, he said. “I think I own that data. At some point that data is aggregated and [the aggregating party] is going to fuse that data with data from other sources. If you wrap context around those sources you turn that into valuable information. I don’t know who owns that information. Actually, I think that gets really complicated from a legal point of view.”

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