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How IoT Devices Empower Companies at the Expense of Consumers

posted by martyb on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-to-avoid-skynet? dept.

canopic jug writes:

David Rosenthal has written a blog post on how end users may be affected by tort law. Specifically, he discusses two points in The Internet of Torts raised by Rebecca Crootof:

  • Introducing the Internet of Torts, in which she describes "how IoT devices empower companies at the expense of consumers and how extant law shields industry from liability."
  • Accountability for the Internet of Torts, in which she discusses "how new products liability law and fiduciary duties could be used to rectify this new power imbalance and ensure that IoT companies are held accountable for the harms they foreseeably cause."

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:43PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:43PM (#722419) Homepage Journal

    Amazon did refund the purchase price for those Orwell books.

    But I still decided to continue buying epub only, and not using a Kindle. It's not really about the money, after all.

    One guy, working on his thesis, had made extensive notes on his Kindle version of those books. When Amazon repossessed the books he was in serious trouble.

    Had he worked from a paper, non-IoT copy, Amazon would at least have had to get some kind of official, contestable order to repossess the books.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @02:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @02:10AM (#722647)

    > One guy, working on his thesis, had made extensive notes on his Kindle version of those books. When Amazon repossessed the books he was in serious trouble.

    If the student was working without a local backup, then I have trouble feeling too sorry for him.

    Those who live by unbacked up data, die by unbacked up data. (paraphrased from a smart friend--when he first said this in the 1980s he s/data/hard-drive)