The Internet of People, Things and Services

6Social Media, Data Privacy, and the Internet of People, Things and Services in the Workplace

A Legal and Organizational Perspective

Kimberly W. O’Connor and Gordon B. Schmidt

Introduction

This rise of social media is part of the general trend of a world where people, things, and services are connected through the Internet at all times, an internetworking system known as the Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS) (Eloff, Eloff, Dlamini, & Zielinski, 2009). Currently, there are 2.46 billion social media users worldwide. By 2021, it is estimated that the number will grow to over 3 billion. Statisticians further predict that there is no end in sight to the increasing number of social media users due to the ease of access to social media ...