What did you get for Christmas?
Smart Home
Tech, Police, and Your Privacy: Year in Review 2019
EFF:
“If 2019 confirmed anything, it is that we should not trust the
microphones and cameras that large corporations sell us to put inside
and near our homes. Thanks to the due diligence of reporters, public
records requesters, and privacy researchers and activists, consumers
have been learning more and more about how these “smart” home
technologies can be hacked, exploited, or utilized by the police and
other law enforcement agencies. Because many technologies that
record audio and video store their data on a cloud maintained by the
company, police can gain access to stored content by presenting a
warrant to those companies—bypassing
consumers altogether.
For instance, in November, police in Florida obtained
a warrant for
the recordings from an Amazon Echo that may have overheard a crime.
This means that whether people think their Alexa is listening or not,
their Alexa could be listening. Because Amazon stores and maintains
that data, things said in the device’s presence can be made
accessible to police via a warrant presented to the company…”
Starting to see the problem.
Law must be
adapted for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We are at the borders of a new revolution,
characterized by a range of new technologies that are merging the
physical worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries.
It merges the capabilities of both the human and the machine,
encompassing a wide swath of areas such as artificial intelligence,
genome editing, biometrics, renewable energy, 3D printing, autonomous
vehicles and the Internet of Things. Tech optimists posit that the
wave of exponential growth in smart tech, artificial intelligence,
machines and the interconnectedness of all aspects of modern life
through technology will bring profound changes to society, and
creates an unprecedented shift from the way we are familiar with —
how we behave, interact and think.
However, like the industrial revolutions preceding
it, the shifts in power brought about by such human-technological
systems also bring about issues of inequality in terms of who
benefits, as well as challenges to security, privacy and community.
… The legal challenges imposed by the Fourth
Industrial Revolution are both new and greater. Data has now become
a valuable business asset which fosters innovation, and lawyers must
begin to ask the right questions in order to understand the creation
process of data assets, its monetary value, and how it drives
business.
IP is tougher in India? Some bits from the
article.
Internet of
Things (IoT) and Intellectual Property- The Interconnect
It has been predicted that by the year 2025,
approximately 80 billion devices will be connected making an
estimated economic impact of about $3.9 trillion to $11.1 trillion
per year[1]. With IoT said to be the next big thing, companies are
spending huge amounts of money in the development of their versions
of IoT to cash-in on the growing market trend.
… Companies such as Dell, Qualcomm, Google and
even Rolls Royce have spent enormous amounts of money towards IoT.
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted a worldwide
spending on IoT to reach $745 billion by the end of year 2019.[5]
The numbers shows the potential growth revenues of this market and
the seriousness of IP in the regard.
IoT and Patents
There has been a tremendous increase in the number
of patent filings by tech giants in the field of IoT.
Software Patenting
Software per se is not protected under the Patent
laws in India i.e. the source code cannot be protected.
IoT and Copyrights
Certain elements of computer programs can be
protected by copyright as long as they are original. The code
language in which the computer program is written, the graphical user
interface (GUI) and the data collected or generated by the device are
all copyrightable.[7]
Data ownership disputes
Although it is safe to say that copyright shall
vest in the data collected by these IoT incorporated devices,
however, it is difficult to ascertain the owner of such data.
Perspective.
Paper book
readers better at various abilities than e-book readers
The
Japan News:
“People who habitually read paper books tend to have a higher
degree of willingness to work on anything and to think more
multilaterally than those who prefer to read electronic books on a
smartphone or a computer, according to a recent
survey by the National Institution For Youth Education,
which was released Monday…
“People who have a habit of reading possess such abilities regardless of the medium. But the survey has made it clearer that physical book readers are better in those abilities,” an official of the institution said…”
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