Comments on: How the Internet of Things could overtake the law

By: Alan Wade (@AlanWade8)

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:15:57 +0000

The good news for Australians is that they can use a virtual private network (VPN) to hide their IP address, not only from their ISP, but from the 2500 appointed officers of 21 Australian agencies that collects, store and monitor the metadata. Don’t forget to try PureVPN if in Australia

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By: Paul Wallbank

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:21:25 +0000

In reply to Mayan.

Mayan, you raise an important point. When we talk about data sovereignty the discussion is about what jurisdiction the data has being saved, what you raise is something which I think is more important — who owns the data once it enters the system?

Thanks for the comment

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By: TNA

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:26:04 +0000

The possibilities with the analytics for anyone with access to the raw data of devices, usage patterns, etc. is endless.

Very targeted marketing, new features on devices, planning for consumption peaks and troughs, etc.

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By: Mayan

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:28:55 +0000

The issue of data sovereignty is very important for the concept of electronic health records. The scheme here is called ‘personally controllable’, yet there are only limited capabilities for people to control their records. What people really want is to own their own medical history. This issue is compounded when one realises that most health records software license agreements insist that all records entered into the software is then owned by the vendor, rather than the doctor, or the doctor’s client, about whom the records concern.

What could possibly go wrong?

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