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Podcast: Is it time to address privacy in the Constitution?

December 13, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

Look at this bee-autiful connected sensor backpack. Image courtesy of Vikram Iyer, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington.

This week I’m joined by Om Malik, a partner at True Ventures and my former boss. We kick off the show with a discussion of the New York Times’ investigation into app location sharing and Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony before Congress. Both topics led to a debate about device privacy and what we should do about the lack of privacy and security in IoT.  We also talked about the need for two-factor authentication on certain connected devices and covered new Z-wave chips, IoT backpacks for bees and the fact that Essential is still around. We also took on some edge computing with Pivotal launching serverless options for users. Finally, we answered a question about adding presence detection to your car.

We didn’t just cover privacy in the news segment. The guest this week also details what happens when data gets out of control. In this case, we’re talking about smart cities. I had Bianca Wylie co-founder of Tech Reset Canada and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation on to discuss why we need to hit pause before adding too much technology to cities. She suggests that we invite more people to participate in the process and tells us how to be better citizens as our governments try to bring in more technology. To be clear, she’s not against technology, but she is concerned that we don’t often have important conversations about how technology can lead to surveillance and how it can impact vulnerable citizens.

 

 

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Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, alexa, bianca Wylie, Congress, Digicert, Essential, google, nest, Om Malik, Pivotal, Sidewalk labs, Silicon Labs, University of Washington, z-wave

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  1. Rob says

    December 13, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    I like to listen to your podcast on my drive to work but your site is more of a blog as it is very difficult to flind your podcast. You really need an easy way to listen to them.

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    • Stacey Higginbotham says

      December 14, 2018 at 8:04 am

      We are on iTunes, Pandora, TuneIn, Spotify and various Android apps. If you search the “Internet of Things Podcast” you should be able to find us. I’m glad you like us, and happy to help if you still can’t find the show.

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