On Thursday, it was my great pleasure to present a draft of my forthcoming paper, “The Internet of Things & Wearable Technology: Addressing Privacy & Security Concerns without Derailing Innovation,” at a conference that took place at the Federal Communications Commission on “Regulating the Evolving Broadband Ecosystem.” The 3-day event was co-sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Nebraska College of Law.
The 65-page working paper I presented is still going through final peer review and copyediting, but I posted a very rough first draft on SSRN for conference participants. I expect the paper to be released as a Mercatus Center working paper in October and then I hope to find a home for it in a law review. I will post the final version once it is released. [UPDATE:The final version of this working paper was released on November 19, 2014.]
In the meantime, however, I thought I would post the 46 slides I presented at the conference, which offer an overview of the nature of the Internet of Things and wearable technology, the potential economic opportunities that exist in this space, and the various privacy and security challenges that could hold this technological revolution back. I also outlined some constructive solutions to those concerns. I plan to be very active on these issues in coming months.
Additional Reading
- “The Growing Conflict of Visions over the Internet of Things & Privacy,” January 14, 2012
- “Can We Adapt to the Internet of Things?” IAPP Privacy Perspectives, June 19, 2013
- My Filing to the FTC in its ‘Internet of Things’ Proceeding, May 31, 2013
- Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom (2014)
- [Video] Cap Hill Briefing on Emerging Tech Policy Issues (June 2014)
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