Smart TVs, smart fridges, smart washing machines? - 0 views
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Ian Forrester on 10 Jan 14Disaster waiting to happen | Ars Technica
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Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You | WIRED - 0 views
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"When a rogue researcher last week released 70,000 OkCupid profiles, complete with usernames and sexual preferences, people were pissed. When Facebook researchers manipulated stories appearing in Newsfeeds for a mood contagion study in 2014, people were really pissed. OkCupid filed a copyright claim to take down the dataset; the journal that published Facebook's study issued an "expression of concern." Outrage has a way of shaping ethical boundaries. We learn from mistakes."
Amazon Echos activated by TV comment - BBC News - 0 views
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An on-air comment by a US TV presenter activated Amazon Echo gadgets in viewers' homes across San Diego.
Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go's CEO - 0 views
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Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.
Connected Toys Are Raising Complicated New Privacy Questions - 0 views
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"Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?"
Who owns a connected car's data? - 0 views
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With momentum behind the connected car gathering across the globe, we're looking at one of the most discussed topics : the data generated by connected cars, and more specifically who owns it.
Lip-Reading Computers Could Spell the End of Passwords as We Know Them - 0 views
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"Instead of requiring a typed password or a fingerprint, this security software asks the user to speak or mouth a password directly at a device's camera."
Black Hat USA 2013 | Home Invasion - 0 views
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A growing trend in electronics is to have them integrate with your home network in order to provide potentially useful features like automatic updates or to extend the usefulness of existing technologies such as door locks you can open and close from anywhere in the world.
When 'Smart Homes' Get Hacked - 0 views
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Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet - Forbes
Digital living by Matt Leach on Prezi - 0 views
When Government Joins the Internet of Things - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Government and the Internet of things... scary or a good thing?
These On-Demand Drones Are Just a Concept But They Still Freak Me out - 0 views
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Conceptual drones
Volvo says horrible 'self-parking car accident' happened because driver didn't have 'pe... - 0 views
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"Last week, a gossip blog based in the Dominican Republic called Remolacha published a disturbing video of what it said was a "self-parking car accident." A group of people stand in a garage watching and filming a grey Volvo XC60 that backs up, stops, and then accelerates toward the group. It smashes into two people, and causes the person filming the video with his phone to drop it and run."
Amazon Web Services goes down, taking Netflix, Reddit, Pocket and more with it - 0 views
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"If you're having trouble accessing several parts of the Web today, it's because Amazon Web Services is having a bit of a glitch this morning."