The Internet of other people’s things

Meg Leta Jones

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Privacy in Public Space

Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges

Elgar Law, Technology and Society series

Edited by Tjerk Timan, Bryce C. Newell and Bert-Jaap Koops

This book examines privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory perspectives. With on-going technological innovations such as mobile cameras, WiFi tracking, drones and augmented reality, aspects of citizens’ lives are increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. The contributions describe contemporary challenges to achieving privacy and anonymity in physical public space, at a time when legal protection remains limited compared to ‘private’ space. To address this problem, the book clearly shows why privacy in public space needs defending. Different ways of conceptualizing and shaping such protection are explored, for example through ‘privacy bubbles’, obfuscation and surveillance transparency, as well as revising the assumptions underlying current privacy laws.

Monograph Book

Published in print:: 24 Nov 2017

ISBN:: 9781786435392

eISBN:: 9781786435408

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435408

Pages:: c 320

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Chapter 10: The Internet of other people’s things

Meg Leta Jones

Monograph Chapter

Published:: 24 November 2017

Category:: Monograph Chapter

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435408.00017

Pages:: 242–268 (27 total)

Collection: Law 2017

Abstract

This chapter is an essay about the future, and as such, it is speculative and optimistic. The future is connected, populated by smart things, people and places. The Consumer Electronic Show 2015 was full of smart devices, from consumer drones to auto-adjusting beds. A number of startups are creating new forms of connectivity. Not just information technology companies are players in the smart future; companies like General Motors and Whirlpool are adding intelligence and autonomy to existing technologies like cars and washing machines. We are quickly creating an environment not full of more screens of different sizes, but one of tangible, ambient computing. As Boo-Keun Yoon, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics, stated flatly, ‘It’s not science fiction anymore. It’s science fact’. This chapter takes the present one step further into a near future wherein these systems are widely used and interconnected—a future without screens.

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