Exploring Privacy Risks in Smart Devices for Connected Living

Personal Web-enabled devices promise to give consumers a more efficient, highly connected lifestyle. But as users introduce these products into their home, with them come a whole new category of privacy breaches, warned Richard Smith, CTO of the Privacy Foundation, in . . . Personal Web-enabled devices promise to give consumers a more efficient, highly connected lifestyle. But as users introduce these products into their home, with them come a whole new category of privacy breaches, warned Richard Smith, CTO of the Privacy Foundation, in his keynote speech at the USENIX Security Symposium here Wednesday.

While corporations have woken up to the importance of preserving information privacy in the workplace, consumers who bring Web devices such as smart phones, wireless networks, and digital TV services into their homes risk losing control over their personal information, Smith told the audience. This issue is coming to the fore now because the dramatic price decrease for such devices has made them attractive to the consumer market.

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