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The Internet of Things will generate 9 billion devices by 2018 according to estimates, but the recent hacker attack that caused a fridge to send over 750,000 spam and phishing messages over the Christmas break create concerns as to the potential data protection issues deriving from the usage of such technologies.
At the Salone del Mobile, the Milan Furniture Fair, I have been surprised by a satellite event dedicated to the "Technology For the Kitchen" which shows that our house, our car and our garments might quickly change because of sensors that will be able to collect information about the enviroment where we live as well as our tastes and preferences and often take decisions for us.
Devices such as smart fridges that through barcodes or RFID can recognise products and send notifications on missing products or even send an order to our grocery store for home delivery, Google Latitude Doorbell which sends alarm messages when our partner is 10 minutes away from home so that we can arrange dinner and wearable technologies that can for instance monitor our body conditions and notify the drugs to be taken show the size of the massive change that is occuring around us. And such change is not so far as such technologies are about to become very common....
Legal and privacy issues in the fridge? Coming soon.