Why we should pay attention to IoT in terms of privacy

Most households now run networks of devices linked to the internet, including computers, gaming systems, household assistants, home robots, TVs, tablets, smartphones and wearables. Your devices make it easy to connect to the world around you, but they can also track a lot of information about you and your friends and family, such as your contacts, photos, videos, location and health and financial data. • According to a 2016 survey by NCSA and ESET, 42 percent of households use either Google’s voice assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana multiple times a day and up to 50 connected or Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be in use in the average connected home by 2020. In 2016 alone, 2.2 billion data records were compromised and vulnerabilities were uncovered in IoT products from leading brands.While 85 percent of enterprises are in the process of or intend to deploy IoT devices, only 10 percent feel confident that they could secure those devices against security threats, according to AT&T’s Cybersecurity Insights Report.10