Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:04PM from the new-rules dept.

dkatana writes: As part of the UK's Smart Meter Implementation Programme, Spain's Telefonica is deploying a M2M solution, using its own proprietary network, to collect and transmit data from 53 million gas and electricity smart meters. The most troubling issue is that the UK government awarded the contract to a private telecom that uses a proprietary network rather than to an independent organization that uses freely available spectrum and open source solutions. Those Smart Meters are supposed to be in operation for more than three decades, and rely on a network that can cease to exist. On top of that, the network, running proprietary protocols, can be hacked, and "will be hacked". Only Telefonica will be able to fix it.

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Witch hunt started... by Theedude · 2015-09-23 20:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Everyone told the world would end when internet started. Now people are hunting M2M like Internet in 1982... Beware Y2K... The End of the World as we know it is starting.... Now it's M2M ... THEY TOOK OUR JOBS... Unbelievable... TheeDude M2M Specialist

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