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U.s. Gets Warnings and Advice About the Internet of Things
Industry groups have submitted more than 130 reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce detailing positive and negative aspects of the Internet of Things.
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In response to a U.S. Department of Commerce request for comments about the Internet of Things' (IoT) potential, industry groups including ACM's U.S. Public Policy Council and others submitted more than 130 reports detailing positive and negative aspects, which will form the basis of a green paper (a tentative government report).
Booz Allen Hamilton stresses the workforce would need to adapt to a reality in which some jobs will become redundant, while demand for others will grow. Trends the consultancy forecasts include a need for data specialists "to analyze and remove noise from data, and privacy officers will need to analyze vulnerabilities and evolve policies." Booz Allen also envisions crowdsourcing becoming more popular as a means for corporations "to access top talent on demand," while emotional intelligence, creativity, "and the ability to deduce meaning from information" will be sought.
Meanwhile, the American Bar Association warns of the IoT's potential scale becoming so vast that responding to a "disabling attack" could exceed "the capacity of any application vendor, the largest global device manufacturers, a self-help community within an industrial sector, or even national governments to address."
ACM cautions although vendors can secure individual devices, once users start building devices into a "composable" infrastructure, the certainty fades that any safeguards will remain.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center notes businesses could gain valuable commercial insights about customers with the IoT.
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