James Clapper, head of the intelligence agencies in the US, said the doubts that existed about the potential benefits that would provide connected devices in the future regarding your options in monitoring and espionage.
In testimony before the US Senate Clapper admitted that "in the future, the intelligence services could use the Internet of Things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, tracking the location and setting targets for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or credentials users. "
This week the White House announced the creation of a post for so-called Chief Information Security Officer, who will manage everything related to cybersecurity. Among its tasks will be to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security "test and certify connected to the 'Internet of Things' devices."
All these devices will be an almost unlimited source of data on the types of activities that users perform with them, and it is surprising that one someone like Clapper has admitted something. It remains to see where the debate on privacy that seems to back US citizens-and the rest of the world have no right according to those comments is.
That small hyper-technology future that we face big and has many interesting advantages but also risks that we try to control our own use of these devices. Many security experts assume that the intelligence agencies of the US and by extension, around the world try to access all data transferred between these devices.