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Global Data Protection and Privacy Legislation and Regulation in the Digital World: Key Issues and a Vision
September 2011
David Hoffman
Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer
Intel |
The world is fast moving to a time where instead of using the internet we will be living within in it, as part of many interconnected networks designed to perform certain processes based upon certain events occurring or not: humans and devices (things) working together seamlessly to operate their car safely, the devices taking over when human actions are missing, such as applying the brakes when an approaching the car ahead that has stopped or slowed and the human has not acted; or devices working together in a network to keep, for example, a steady convoy of traffic moving on a highway without human action. We find such concepts now integrated into limited care facilities for the elderly that monitor movement of the individual, the regular taking of medicine and consumption of food, the monitoring of certain health conditions with the idea that such monitoring would immediately alert caretakers of an emergency in time to make a difference.
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