Internet of Things regulators might have learnt an interesting lesson from Google's decision to shut down Google News in Spain as a consequence of the coming into force of new publishing law.ย
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The EU Article 29 Working Party provided clarifications on the implementation of the privacy right to be forgotten following the famous decision of the European Court of Justice involving Googleย search engine.ย
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Google data protection issues might increase as a consequence of the ruling of the European Court of Justice that obliged search engines to remove the link between search results and a webpage if it contains information the individual deems should be "forgotten". ย But it is argued that this decision might have relevant consequences also for the development of technologies based on Big Data including Internet of Things and wearable technologies.
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$ 3 billion will be spent in 2014 on 10 million units of wearable technologies according to a Deloitte report, but the potentials of this market can be seen also through the attempts by tech companies to patent anything connected to them, including the heart gesture made in front of Google Glasses so setting a new approach for the Internet of Things! ย