ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Social inequality, privacy erosion, the exploitation of employees — the Internet of Things has huge downsides, according to a Pew Research Center study.

But experts also warned of the some of negative ramifications of the new hyper-connected environment. “Concerning the bad things that can be done with the Internet and big data, it’s a rat race between those with good and bad intentions in terms of setting up security and hacking that same security,” Pew quoted Maurice Vergeer, researcher in communication science at Radboud University in the Netherlands, as saying.

“The problem is that increasingly more people are dependent on it. So, any damage that’ll be done will affect more and more people.”

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Internet+of+things