[iot-wg] IoT traffic and implicit consent
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Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Tue Oct 23 16:32:24 CEST 2018
> On 22 Oct 2018, at 22:29, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote: > >> BTW, Jelte spoke about the SPIN project at the WG meeting in >> Marseille. It was a revelation to see how much data was being sent >> outside his home network from its IoT devices. [And on a related note, >> why does my DVD player call the mothership and what data are being >> exchanged?] > > It's not a DVD player. It's a Transformer Robot hiding in your house. Well, it was a robot. Then it turned into a DVD player. :-) Or was it the other way round? :-) No matter. The point I was trying to make is that it’s very rare to be properly informed about the traffic IoT devices generate or why. Manufacturers generally don’t volunteer that information. From that PoV a DVD player is no different from a smart lightbulb or a transformer robot. I naively assumed my DVD player might check for new firmware from time to time. But it’s doing a lot more than that and one of these days I’ll get around to finding out exactly what it’s doing.
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