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Table 3.3: Overview of policy and regulatory measures (end)

What? Why? What is done today/best practice Chapter 3
Privacy and security • Security vulnerabilities in IoT sys- • Ensuring security and privacy
tems let attackers access private from outset of IoT system design
data and cause physical harm in process.
cases such as medical devices • Development of co-regulation by
and connected vehicles. all stakeholders to protect secu-
• Many IoT companies have little rity and privacy.
Internet security expertise. • Further development of privacy
• IoT device resource and connec- and consumer protection rules
tivity constraints make security to ensure security testing of IoT
and vulnerability patching more systems that process sensitive
difficult. personal data.
• Smart city vulnerabilities can be
hard to fix and present signifi-
cant safety issues (e.g. in traffic
lights).
• Innocuous sensor data can
be linked together to create
detailed individual profiles and
used to infer sensitive personal
information, such as medical
disorders. This may lead to
discrimination in employment,
financial and healthcare services.

enables government, licensed commercial users, cope with the “exponential growth” it expects in
and unlicensed users to cooperatively make use of IoT traffic .
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a large amount of spectrum .
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Studies for the European Commission have
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s suggested that a licence-exempt model is most
(FCC’s) expert IoT working group predicts that IoT effective for IoT development, since it avoids
will add a significant capacity load to existing Wi-Fi the need for contractual negotiations before
and 4G mobile networks. Regulators will need devices are manufactured and used, allowing the
to give continuing attention to the availability of production of large numbers of cheap devices .
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spectrum for short-range IoT communications and A Korean government review found an increasing
the capacity of backhaul networks that connect demand for unlicensed, low-power, long-distance
IoT gateways to the Internet. They will also need communications to connect devices in remote
to encourage the roll-out of small-cell network areas .
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technology such as 5G. If these conditions are
met, the working group does not expect that new
spectrum will need to be explicitly allocated to IoT 3.5.2 Switching and roaming
communications .
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Firms operating large networks of M2M devices
The FCC also is reviewing the use of spectrum via mobile telephony networks, with a fixed SIM
above 25 GHz for 5G networks, and possibly the in each device, may not find it easy to switch
IoT . The Korean government plans to secure up networks at the end of a contract. The same
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to 1 GHz of additional spectrum by 2023, and it
will ensure that 5G is commercialised by 2020 to

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