The Internet of Things will require new forms of informed consent as a legal basis for the processing of personal data, according to the European Union’s Article 29 Working Party.
According to Computing, the watchdog claims that “classical mechanisms used to obtain individuals’ consent may be difficult to apply in the Internet of Things” because current mechanisms only provide a “low-quality consent”.
Current consent mechanisms were devised in the 1980s when computerisation was only just beginning to affect personal data on a large scale.
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