Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

New methods of surveillance

The potential for a dystopian society where everything that anyone does is monitored is often invoked as a potential future aided by the IoT. When we bundle things like drones (also known as SUAS) into the conversation, the concerns are validated. Drones with remarkably high-resolution cameras and a variety of other pervasive sensors all raise privacy concerns; therefore, it is clear there is much work to be done to ensure that drone operators are not sued because of a lack of clear guidance on what data can be collected and how, and what the treatment of the data needs to address.

To address these new surveillance methods, new legislation related to the collection of imagery and other data by these platforms may ...