Excitingly, my recent Springer Nature Group paper with Jason R.C. Nurse and Andrew Martin has just been published!

The article presents six novel categories of #InternetOfThings #threats to the #media:

1) #Regulatory gaps,
2) #Legal threats,
3) #Profiling threats,
4) #Tracking threats,
5) #Data and #device modification threats,
6) #Networked device threats.

Each of the threats in these categories includes a description and #narrative vignettes of hypothetical consequences that include real-life ways in which #IoT devices can be used to inhibit #journalism, building on interdisciplinary literature analysis and expert interviews.

In so doing, this article synthesises #technical information about IoT device capabilities with human #security and #privacy requirements tailored to a specific at-risk population: #journalists. It is therefore important for #cyber #science scholarship to address the contemporary and #emergingrisks associated with IoT devices to high-risk groups such as journalists.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-6414-5_17

Threats to Journalists from the Consumer Internet of Things

Threats associated with the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) may particularly inhibit the work and wellbeing of journalists, especially because of the danger of technological surveillance and the imperative to protect confidential sources. These issues may have...

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@anjulishere quick question, are cars considered IoT devices?
@anjulishere oh and how rude of me! Congrats on publication! That’s awesome.

@CrackedWindscreen Thank you! For the purposes of my PhD research, we considered smart cars to be consumer IoT devices. These are two good articles I read on them:
1) https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/what-can-your-connected-car-reveal-about-you-

2) https://theconversation.com/six-parts-of-your-car-that-gather-data-on-you-198096

What Can Your Connected Car Reveal About You?

App developers must take responsibility for the security of users' data.

Dark Reading
@anjulishere Thank you! I presumed they would be considered so. The car industry's way of dealing with it all is, I'll be polite, "ungood".