This article critically interrogates the increasing importance of connectivity protocols for how they shape and prefigure dynamics of platform power, as dominant actors in the tech sector collaborate on the issue of smart home and Internet of Things interoperability in efforts to maintain their market power and demonstrate their ability to regulate themselves.
News and Research articles on Internet of things
Manufacturers of “smart goods” can remotely alter or destroy software-enabled devices to further their corporate interests, a form of post-purchase control termed “bricking”.
The rapid development of the Internet of Things - or IoT - affects the protection of privacy in profound ways. Eduardo Magrani argues in favour of a shift from privacy protection to the idea a “right to non-tracking”.
This paper is part of Australian internet policy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Angela Daly and Julian Thomas. Acknowledgement: Thanks to the Melbourne Networked Society Institute at the University of Melbourne for funding our research project ‘The Internet of Things (IoT) and Consumer Privacy’, 2015-2016, and to our participants for generously sharing their experiences and concerns about the IoT. Some of the information and ideas in this article draw on Richardson et al., 2016. Introduction Collaboration, networking and innovation are predicted to change radically as we move into an era of the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the fastest-growing trends in …
In this article the 'Internet of Things' is considered to be a new, powerful governance factor challenging regulation by law described as the ‘Governance by Things’.
What does politics have to take into account when ever more objects are connect to the internet? EU experts publish their report on the “internet of things”.