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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Wants Comments on IoT Devices

posted by martyb on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the Protecting-the-product-or-the-public? dept.

tonyPick writes:

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is conducting a public hearing on the safety of internet-connected consumer products, and is requesting comments.

The Commission hearing will begin at 10 a.m., on May 16, 2018, and will conclude the same day. The Commission hearing will also be available through a webcast, but viewers will not be able to interact with the panels and presenters through the webcast.
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The growth of IoT-related products is a challenge for all CPSC stakeholders to address. Regulators, standards organizations, and business and consumer advocates must work collaboratively to develop a framework for best practices. To that end, the Commission will hold a public hearing for all interested parties on consumer product safety issues related to IoT.

Although this explicitly does not cover data security and privacy it covers many of the other issues seen with IoT devices.

Comments can be submitted to the commission through the web portal:

You may submit written comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2018-0007
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Electronic Submissions: Submit electronic comments to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at: www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

Seen through the Internet Of Shit twitter feed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @06:12PM (#660107)

    The vendor says it magically doesn't belong to anyone because it is in the cloud. Because cloud cloudy cloud cloudity cloud.

    You can't sure the cloud. The judge rules in favor of the cloud because clouds. So vendor can do whatever they want. It's the cloud's problem. Can't do anything about the cloud. Everything is good in the cloud. Why are you questioning the cloud? What is best for everyone is in the cloud. Cloud belongs to no one. Can't blame the cloud. Cloud's going to do what a clouds going to do. You will learn to love the cloud too.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @06:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @06:14PM (#660110)

    You're just making the other AC's point.

    Society depends on well-defined property; that's the whole point of Capitalism: Every disputed resources needs to be assigned a well-defined owner—that's what "capital" is.