The ACMA has detailed its current and planned IoT research initiatives to look at the impact of IoT on media and communications, and determine what regulatory responses might be needed. These could fall into four areas within the ACMA’s regulatory remit: network infrastructure; spectrum management; equipment standards; consumer safeguards. The ACMA has set out its […]
Australia’s voluntary IoT security code could be enforced
Lawyers have suggested compliance with the voluntary code of practice for suppliers of consumer IoT devices, issued by the Government last month, could be enforced by the ACCC. Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton released a for-comment draft of the code of practice on November 19 saying it had been developed drawing on the technical expertise […]
IoT heading into a regulatory minefield
An opinion piece on the Rethink Internet of Things web site argues that the emergence of the IoT will create a diverse and fragmented ecosystem that will be unwelcome to companies hoping to benefit from a swift progress towards the world of 50 billion connected devices, or those which could build a business around the […]
