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This talk will explore ‘permission’ in the IoT from three perspectives. Firstly, that active consent and permission is further breaking down, leading to a challenges to ‘boundary management.’ Second is a review of the technologies of ‘permissioning’ – frameworks and protocols from the identity management domain that enable users to grant granular permissions to share data. Third is a critique of the ‘permissionless innovation’ discourse within IoT policy discussion, which views government intervention into the developing IoT market as a hindrance to innovation, and decries precautionary approaches to regulation.

Dr. Gilad Rosner is a privacy and information policy researcher, and founder of the non-profit IoT Privacy Forum. Gilad’s broader work focuses on identity management, US & EU privacy regimes, and the ethics of emotion analytics. His research has been used by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee. He has been a featured expert on the BBC and O’Reilly, and his 20-year IT career has spanned digital identity technologies, digital media, automation and telecommunications.

Gilad is a member of the UK Cabinet Office Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group and a member of the Advisory Group of Experts, convened to support the forthcoming review of the OECD Privacy Guidelines. He is an Associate Researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, a Visiting Researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, and has consulted on trust issues for the UK government’s identity assurance program, Verify.gov. Gilad was a policy advisor to a Wisconsin State Representative, contributing directly to legislation on law enforcement access to location data, access to digital assets upon death, and the collection of student biometrics.