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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:36PM (3 children)
In a fundamentally free society, you can achieve safety.
However, in a fundamentally safe society, you cannot achieve freedom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:47PM (2 children)
Nice pretend world you live in.
Huge corporations with experts in security cannot protect themselves. And suffer little when breaches are found.
So how does regular guy/gal have any chance to secure all their shit?
Even experts fail at this shit. And yet let’s make it all the full responsibility of the customer and zero on the company who sold them shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @10:24PM
No one argued that companies should have zero responsibility.
If anything, such responsibility should be part of the contract of service, and could be advertised to the customer by means of a widely publicized logo—just like nearly all of your boxed, prepackaged food in the U.S. has logos certifying Jewish kosher methods were used in the preparation.
It's a matter of fraud in advertising and breaches of contract. We can do this; our law—our Western culture of individual rights, responsibilities, and contractual negotiation—is capable enough to solve the problem.
It's time to get rid of this creeping non-Western idea that society must be dictated from on high by the detailed prescription of the elite political class. It's anathema to a free society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @04:45PM
huge companies are retarded af. that credit agency got "hacked" because they had an unpatched java server(java server...lmao) running on the internet that the security people didn't even know existed and the slaveware security scanner(super defense layer 2) couldn't even detect it (even though it had ports opened to the public internet). any concerned high school student could do better.