Digital health has massive potentials, but its implementation requires to comply with standards that are now even more stringent after the issue of new guidelines by the Italian privacy authority.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming exponentially reviewed by regulators. After the report from the Italian telecom regulator (AgCom), the Italian privacy authority just launched a consultation seeking inputs from the industry on how to regulate the IoT.
The DLA Piper Internet of Things group just launched a series of webinars on legal and business issues of the Internet of Things. The first webinar will cover the Business and Legal Framework of the Internet of Things and will take place on Wednesday 22 April 2015 from 3.00 to 4.00pm UK time.
The decision of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt the net neutrality principle raised concerns on the impact on the Internet of Things.
Distributors of free Apps shall comply with stringent transparency obligations following an investigation from the Italian competition authority that challenged some of them as misleading.
The Internet of Things will make the Internet disappear according to Eric Schmidt of Google. The Internet will become part of any object around us collecting personal data in a seemless manner which might lead to privacy issues that regulators shall properly address.
Internet of Things has been the centre of the attention of the global market during 2014 and everyone is curious to see what will happen in 2015.
For those that missed my presentation of Privacy and national laws as an obstacle to telemedicine at the National Center of Research, you can find the slides of the presentation here as well as on the Presentation Page of this blog.
I am proud to inform you that I will participate tomorrow 25 November 2014 to the conference "La telemedicina: verso uno standard europeo. Stato dell'arte e progetto TeleSCoPE" (The telemedicine: towards a European standard. Status of the art and TeleSCoPE project) arranged by the Italian National Center of Research (CNR) where I will run a session named "Privacy and national laws as an obstacle to the growth of telemedicine".
Internet of Things technologies are already all around us and with a market that is expected to reach a value of more than $ 14.4 trillion over the next decade with 50 billion connected devices by 2020, the question is whether ad hoc regulations are necessary to govern the Internet of Things sector.