Soon Your City Will Know Everything About You
The world’s cities are collecting ever-increasing amounts of data. It’s time for mechanisms to prevent abuse.
They call it “the Internet of Things” — the rapidly growing network of everyday objects equipped with sensors, tiny power supplies, and internet addresses. Within a few years, we will be immersed in a world of these connected devices. The best estimates suggest that there will be about 60 billion of them by the year 2020. We’ve already seen internet-accessible sensors implanted in dolls, cars, and cows.