From: ZDNet
History tells us that technology doesn’t get regulated properly until people start to die. Why will IoT be any different?
By Stilgherrian for The Full Tilt
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Traditionally, computer software licences claim to be exempt from fitness for purpose requirements. Spreadsheet software doesn’t even guarantee that it’ll add up numbers correctly. With the train wreck of IoT looming, maybe that should change.
“There is a point at which we have to start [saying] that the providers of software have a duty of care for the products they provide to be fit for purpose,” Kernick said.
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