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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, @09:05PM (1 child)
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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 30 2018, @12:22AM
You think a $14.95 IoT thingy has an FPGA in it?
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