Download This PaperYour Smart Coffee Machine Knows What You Did Last Summer: A Legal Analysis of the Limitations of Traditional Privacy of the Home Under Dutch Law in the Era of Smart Technology
31 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2018
Date Written: September 2017
Abstract
The increasing number of smart devices entering our homes have implications for privacy. Not only do we bring in more spying devices into the home, often these smart objects are linked to data streams or other devices that leave the home – thereby literally taking private matters into public space. In this paper, we take the context of the Netherlands to show that current legal definitions and protections of the home are inadequate to deal with novel privacy threats that stem from devices that interact with us beyond the screen.
Keywords: smart home, privacy of the home, data protection
JEL Classification: K19
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Van Dongen, Lisa and Timan, Tjerk, Your Smart Coffee Machine Knows What You Did Last Summer: A Legal Analysis of the Limitations of Traditional Privacy of the Home Under Dutch Law in the Era of Smart Technology (September 2017). SCRIPT-ed, Vol. 14, No. 2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3090340
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