Autonomous Vehicle Regs Slowed Down for Good Reasons in Senate
The AV Start bill, intended to clear the regulatory path for self-driving vehicles, is being held up by at least three Democrat Senators who cite...
Germany bans children’s smartwatches
Eavesdropping concerns and security failings were behind last week's decision in Germany to ban sales of various children's smartwatches, just as...
Connected Car Privacy Resolution: Thoughtful and Forward-looking
The 39th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, held last month in Hong Kong, produced a non-binding resolution...
Drone Crash was “Just a Matter of Time”
A commercial light airplane has collided with a drone in Quebec, Canada, causing only minor damage as the jet descended for landing at the Jean...
Solving IoT’s problems before ‘genies get out of bottles’
In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Gilad Rosner discusses his work in bringing together academics, advocates, governments and...
Leaked: 540,000 vehicle tracking accounts
The Kromtech Security Center recently discovered the goldmine of email addresses, passwords, license plates and VINs belonging to SVR Tracking, a...
Privacy, Phones and the Third Party Doctrine – Amicus Brief
Last month, Data & Society and fifteen scholars filed an amicus brief in Carpenter v. United States, a pending U.S. Supreme Court case expected...
FTC updates COPPA guidance for the IoT age
The FTC's recently revised guidance document for compliance with COPPA now includes references to the Internet of Things and connected toys.
FBI issues privacy warning over connected toys
The FBI has weighed into a major controversy with a consumer notice encouraging parents "to consider cyber security prior to introducing smart,...
FTC Comment on Improving IoT Security
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has contributed comments to a working group overseen by the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information...
Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Recognition Tricked
German techies have fooled the Galaxy 8's iris recognition authentication software by placing a contact lens over a life-size color printed...
IoT vulnerabilities exposed by 11-year-old whiz kid
Before an audience of experts at the International One cybersecurity conference in the Hague this week, an 11-year-old tech enthusiast was...
Wearables as reliable incriminating evidence
Now, with a growing influx of IoT sensors being deployed across society, police can access dozens of reliable trackers cooperating to keep tabs...
Bose lawsuit alleges spying on habits through headphones
The 'Connect' app enables extra features for select Bose headsets and speakers in the QuietComfort, QuietControl, SoundLink and SoundSport...
IoT product maker bricks device as revenge for bad review
Man buys IoT garage door opener. Man thinks product is poorly made, leaves comment in manufacturer's forum and on Amazon.
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner eyes connected cars
"Modern Cars are more than simply vehicles. They have become smartphones on wheels — mobile sensor networks, capable of gathering information...
Security bug found in IoT hospital dishwasher
A Miele industrial dishwasher intended for hospital use has caused general concern after a security vulnerability was found by researchers.
IoT Vibrator maker settles out of court for violating users’ privacy
We-Vibe, the bold "smart sex toy" firm has agreed to pay thousands of dollars to each user active before September 6, 2016, after collecting a...
Another IoT toy security failure: 2 million voice messages left exposed
Maker of cuddly connected devices Spiral Toys have joined a small but growing club of toymakers now infamous for compromising the highly intimate...
FTC launches $25K contest for smart home IoT security tool
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is offering $25,000 (and runner-up prizes) for a "technical solution" that would protect consumers from the...
Former Uber Employee Claims Violations of Privacy Rights
A former Uber employee is suing the company for whistleblower retaliation, exposing a startling set of claims about data privacy practices within...
Vulnerabilities of the Connected Car
Security Impact Analysis should be a regulatory requirement for all cars that rise above a certain threshold of connectivity (a topic for...
Berkeley CLTC releases “Cybersecurity Futures 2020,” including one on IoT
UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity released "Cybersecurity Futures 2020," a set of scenarios meant to spur conversations about the...
Law is Code
While waiting for a taxi in Barcelona, my friend, irritated at waiting for one to appear, told me that Uber was made illegal in Spain. However,...
Collection Limitation and the IoT
One of the debates in privacy is the continuing feasibility of Collection Limitation as a data protection principle.
Member of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation
The IoT Privacy Forum is now a member of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation, a European Commission-convened group of industry...
ACLU posts on power, bureaucracy and the Internet of Things
Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst for the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, is doing a series of posts on the IoT. The first piece,
The security shelf-life of IoT devices
What will be the level of security and support while under warranty? If a critical vulnerability is discovered, will an update be provided? What...
WA State House Cmte passes very reasonable drone privacy bill
The Washington State House Technology & Economic Development Committee passed a reasonable drone privacy bill last week. Basically, you can't fly...
Events & Conferences
The IoT Asia-Pacific Summit 2017
Two events exploring IoT issues are to be held consecutively in Bangkok, Thailand during 21-23 September 2017, in conjunction with the...
Interdisciplinary Summer School on Privacy and IoT
Doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection, security, surveillance and ethics are invited to participate in the 2nd...
Workshop: “Pushing Back on the Internet of Things”
Princeton University’s Center for IT Policy (CITP), collaborating with the Center for Digital Humanities, is soliciting "teams of computer...
Usable Security Mini Conference 2017 – Call for Papers
We invite submissions on all aspects of human factors including mental models, adoption, and usability in the context of security and privacy.
Calls for Papers, Positions & Input
Postdoc position in Paris: Human-Machine Interactions
The HCI group at Sorbonne University is looking to fill a new postdoctoral role on Situated Analysis of Human-Machine Interactions in Smart...
CfP: “Data Privacy in the Digital Age” Symposium
The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Privacy & Info Management is inviting abstracts for the HHS Symposium entitled “Data...
Call for Chapters: Technology and the City
All over the world massive investments are being made to realize visions of the ‘Smart City.’ Technology plays a central role in making...
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
SOUPS 2017 will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
PhD Scholarship for Ethics and Human-Machine Systems
The University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Microsoft Research are offering a 3-year full-time funded PhD. The focus of the project will be...
CfP: Security and Privacy in Smart Cities
Due to the fact that big data and smart city go hand-in-hand, information security has become inevitable requirement not only for personal...
FTC Workshop on Connected Car Privacy/Security
Modern motor vehicles increasingly are being equipped with technologies that enable them to access information via the Internet and gather, store...
Fellowship on IoT workplace privacy/security
A postdoctoral researcher is required for at least 12 months at the Center for Security Informatics at Indiana University to study privacy and...
Biosensing Workshop at DIS2017
The Biosensing Workshop will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Designing Interactive Systems conference in mid-June 2017, and is calling for...
Workshop on Privacy and Security of Computer Vision
A new workshop in Hawaii will examine the future of computer vision (real-time video and/or image analysis), which is rapidly becoming an area of...
Data Transparency Lab 2017 Grant Program
The 2017 Data Transparency Lab grant scheme is offering up to €50,000 for research aiding the development of transparency software tools.
European Workshop on Usable Security
The 2nd European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) will be an affiliated workshop at the 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy...
eHealth Privacy Policy Challenge
Challenge.gov, the official organizer of US federal tech/science competitions, has unveiled the Privacy Policy Snapshot Challenge with a top...
FTC launches $25K contest for smart home IoT security tool
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is offering $25,000 (and runner-up prizes) for a "technical solution" that would protect consumers from the...
HCI Graduate Student Positions in Tangibles and Wearables for Play
Professor Katherine Isbister at the University of California Santa Cruz's Computational Media department is looking for new graduate students...
Usable Security Mini Conference 2017 – Call for Papers
We invite submissions on all aspects of human factors including mental models, adoption, and usability in the context of security and privacy.
PhD position available: Enhancing Transparency and Control in the IoT
Implementing transparency and control in the context of IoT raises a number of challenges. Addressing these challenges is the main goal of the...
Mozilla/Ford Foundation’s Open Web Fellows Program now accepting applications
Broadly speaking, we are looking for makers – those who see a problem in the world and can solve it through technology or media.