WEF comes clean on home technology – It’s a Hammer in Search of a Nail (We’re the Nail)

FROM: Feeling Safe in the Home of the Future 

While regulations and standards are critical in creating a trustworthy smart home environment, crafting them is no easy feat. Things like software updates, data collection and internet connectivity require frameworks to consider not only design phase implementations and processes, but also after sales implementations and processes too. Do they now?

To develop proper policies that take these features into account, it is important to consider all the processes related to product life cycle; from design to business model, to manufacturing, marketing and even aftersales of a smart home device.

Why do they want regulations and standards? Butt out, guys. We know you only want to be able to monitor our consumption, eavesdrop on our conversations, spy on our use of resources, and, ultimately have the power to deny us all of these things. Just Eff Off.