General Data Protection Regulation

• NEW YORK , Nov. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Telecom services market size is expected to grow by USD 625.5 billion from 2022 to 2027.
• Increased demand for broadband boosting the market - The popularity of the Internet has increased the demand for high-speed broadband connections.
• Hence, high demand for internet and broadband will drive the growth of the global telecommunications services market during the forecast period.
• Vendor Landscape - The global telecom services market is fragmented, with the presence of several global as well as regional vendors.

• Many people worry about the privacy risks of using these devices because they may allow hackers to listen to our conversations at home.
• But the contracts for using them are so long we don’t understand which other rights we might be signing away.
• Of the 246 contracts, I focused on those that are most likely to be relevant to smart speaker Echo’s users.
• I found they are on average as long as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (317 pages).

Does this matter?

• T&Cs are not just about our privacy – and our privacy is not just about our data.
• By surrounding ourselves with devices with sensors (also known as the “Internet of Things)”, we’ve effectively invited digital landlords into our homes.
• Another example is how tractor manufacturer John Deere relied on its end-user licence agreement (Eula) to stop farmers repairing their smart tractors.
• Cochrane’s girlfriend’s son had been “playing” with his computer without his permission while he was away from the house.

Regulation won’t work

• They are both in progress, so we don’t know yet when they will be adopted.
• Big tech and other large stakeholders have a huge influence because they have money and influence to fight laws they don’t like.
• This was the case with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect at the end of a nine-year process.

What does work

• Let’s circle back to John Deere and the way the company tried to deprive tractor owners of their right to fix their machines.
• There is much to learn from those farmers who joined together with hackers to resist “smart power abuses”.
• But only after attendees at a hacker’s convention figured out how to “jailbreak” the code that was locking farmers and engineers out.

Guido Noto La Diega receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation - project ref no AH/W010518/1 "From Smart Technologies to Smart Consumer Laws: Comparative Perspectives from Germany and the United Kingdom". They serve on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group Scotland.

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• Through the ANFSI, the Ministry's operational staff will be able to have access to SPECTRA, the Intelligence Analysis Management software developed by OPPSCIENCE.
• This collaboration is a sign of the Ministry's ambition to integrate cutting-edge technologies in the fight against crime.
• The product of many years of research and development, SPECTRA is an investigation software program based on IAM (Intelligence Analysis Management) technologies.
• With this in mind, SPECTRA will be introduced to law enforcement worldwide at the Milipol Paris show in November this year.