Torino IoT Meetup at Casa Jasmina, 20 July 2015. We ended up having a spontaneous conversation instead of using slides, but these were the notes I drafted before the meetup. They give you a hint as to the angle from which I approached the topic of ethics, policies and interfaces in IoT and smart homes.

1. Ethics, policies & interfaces
The role of design & open source in IoT
Torino IoT Meetup
Casa Jasmina, 20 July 2015

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4. IoT
in our cities
in our homes
on our bodies
inside our bodies

5. IoT at a crossroads
between commerce, surveillance and empowerment

6. Early days
(awkward)

8. The narrative of the smart
city (...) represents some
of the least interesting
and the most problematic.
— Adam Greenfield

9. Narratives—MORE EFFICIENCY
—MEASUREMENT = MANAGEMENT
—THE PERFECT ALGORITHM

10. Unintended
consequences

11. Limits—What can be measured?
—What should be measured?
—What should NOT be measured?

12. Security & open source
IoT means we keep our bodies inside computers
just about all the time (cars, houses, planes).
If you can't open it...

13. We need to build better
alternatives

14. Internet principlesto the rescue
—openness
—Postel’s law (robustness principle)
—rough consensus and running code
—small pieces, loosely joined
—standards should be discovered, not decreed

15. Ethical questions are
legislated at the level of
interface design.
— Adam Greenfield

16. Starting points

17. #ThingsCon

19. #iotManifesto

20. Thank you!Peter Bihr
Twitter: @peterbihr
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Mail: peter@thewavingcat.com
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