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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: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:07PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:07PM (#660177)

    Most of the IoT crap isn't about cutting cost, it's about aggregating big data in the cloud, capturing customer information for profit. So many systems that could be controlled via local network are not, but are instead relayed through central company servers to keep them in the loop and incidentally in control.

    Such devices are one way of judging a company or brand name, for instance: when(if) Nest thermostats function with >99.99% uptime over a period of 20+ years, that will be something of a selling point as compared to new upstart competitors. Flipside: Sony and their PS3 software updates, for my use profile, mean that every time I turn on my device (once every few months), I have to go through 30+ minutes of update before I can do what I wanted to do with it. Killing OtherOS without warning or willing compensation, yeah, that PS4 doesn't even look mildly tempting.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:05PM (#660196)

    No, most of the IoT crap is because the packages are dirt cheap and brain dead easy to implement in something. Reporting back to the mothership is as much of convenience as anything else. You want to program in all the crap that your FPGA needs to do, or add it on later?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @01:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @01:25AM (#660258)

    Most All of the IoT crap isn't about cutting cost, it's about aggregating big data in the cloud, capturing customer information for profit. So many systems that could be controlled via local network are not, but are instead relayed through central company servers to keep them in the loop and incidentally in control.

    Ftfy.