Rebecca Herold, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, writes for Dell on the necessity for organizations to consider the privacy harms associated with the Internet of Things as the expansion of smart gadgets is creating more privacy risks than ever. “Whenever an organization considers any type of new product that interacts with users and collects information from them, privacy harms must be considered and then controls implemented to mitigate them,” Herold writes. Using a case study of a toy manufacturer producing a new WiFi-connected doll, Herold writes that organizations should consider the potential privacy harms identified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including loss of trust, loss of self-determination or physical harm.
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