What does EU regulatory guidance on the Internet of Things mean in practice? Part 1 by Antonis Patrikios
The Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to be the next big thing, a disruptive technological step that will change the way in which we live and work, perhaps as fundamentally as the ‘traditional’ Internet did. No surprise then that everyone wants a slice of that pie and that there is a lot of ‘noise’ out there. This is so despite the fact that to a large extent we’re not really sure about what the term ‘Internet of Things’ means – my colleague Mark Webber explores this question in his recent blog. Whatever the IoT is or is going to become, one thing is certain: it is all about the data.
There is also no doubt that the IoT triggers challenging legal issues that businesses, lawyers, legislators and regulators need to get their heads around in the months and years to come. Mark discusses these challenges in the second part of his blog (here), where he considers the regulatory outlook and briefly discusses the recent Article 29 Working Party Opinion on the Internet of Things.