Articoli marcati con tag ‘IoT’
Internet of things: what is privacy right?
6 settembre 2009
We are living in a globalized era and the fast process of technologies evolution modify our lifestyles. In fact, with reference to IOT, there are issues related to privacy, with security and responsibility.
IOT system allows you to transfer over the Internet, such as through RFID technology, data including personal data. Personal Information may be transmitted only when the subject where is installed the microchip is linked to a person. Obviously the connection to the person may be direct or indirect. We could have a direct link when the user is aware of the possible transmission of personal data and lend consent. Alternatively, the connection may be indirect when the object is not linked directly with the user but only indirectly through the use of information that belong to the person. Imagine if the person buys a object with RFID or similar technology, but it isn’t linked to the object, in the process of purchase if the person can be identified through payment with credit cards or loyalty cards that indicate the type product purchased, could create an indirect connections.
In fact, the person may have previously provided your consent for the dissemination of data relating to purchases (the simplest example concerns the supermarkets or big chains) for advertising purposes. In this way, a connection could be achieved with the indirect result of the person connecting to those purchased.
In terms of privacy, may be protected as a person? Who manages the personal data? Where will this data stored?
Hence IoT has effects also on responsibility with clear reference also adopting appropriate security measures. Regarding IoT system it’s correct to talk about privacy in term of privacy right for each data subject but also as a sum of all the data subject’s rights in a global Internet contest. Therefore the concept is to protect privacy right bt also privacy rights (or privacy ad privacies) in the European legal framework.
In the image below a simple schema of Internet of things that shows how are important the privacy issues when IoT become the sum of each single privacy right.
