IoT Legal Landscape: Limits of Private Sector Collection and Use of Data

The United States regulates information privacy in the private sector through a complicated patchwork of legislation, regulations, and self-regulation. Together with industry best practices, this regulatory environment provides the backbone of consumer privacy protection for US companies. The IoT industry illustrates these challenges well. In this session, we will delve into the current regulatory landscape and understand how it impacts IoT implementations. At a high level, we will cover:

• The Federal Trade Commission Act
• FTC Privacy Enforcement Actions
• FTC Security Enforcement Actions
• Future of federal enforcement (IoT, AI, Big data, unregulated data)