I came across the following article over the weekend.  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ces-internet-things-20140105,0,3796601.story#axzz2pdVCB0o2

It deals with the internet of things and the records that will be generated by all sorts of common objects. One example it provides is a tennis racket that will capture and store all sorts of data on how the racket is used and I would presume that the market place will find a way to commercialize this data. The article quotes analysts who project that by 2050 there will be 50 billion internet connected gadgets or 5 for every man, women and child on the planet.  So my question is this - will such data have a single retention period. Perhaps because of privacy concerns there may be a government mandated maximum or perhaps not. So from a records retention perspective is all this stuff just customer data over which there may be some privacy issues but there is little hard regulatory governance.

Just to give you a sense that this is not as farfetched as it sounds the US Federal Trade Commission recently held a workshop on the privacy and security issues surrounding the internet of things.

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2013/11/internet-things-privacy-and-security-connected-world


David Gaynon
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Huntington Beach CA 92647  USA


List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]