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IoT Poses Legal Challenges, Say Experts

The internet of things (IoT) looks increasingly as if it will be an internet of lawsuits, where determining liability will pose a challenge for lawyers. That is according to a group of experts at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco this week, who discussed the legal difficulties expected as billions of items, from toasters to cars, many of them poorly designed and unsecured, are connected to networks.The panelists said an initial problem was just defining what the IoT was and the standards that govern the “things” that were its components and their activities.

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