LifeHacker : The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is the new darling of the technology world thanks to our love of being tethered to our electronic devices. Watches, fridges and even dog collars are connected to the internet these days and these devices are generating an unrelenting wave of data. This has inevitably led to some privacy concerns over how the data is collected and used. How is one of the world’s biggest cloud companies dealing with this IoT conundrum? We find out.Whack a chip in and make it connect to the internet. It’s so easy to create a connected device these days. So much so that there’s a whole Tumblr page dedicated to whacky IoT devices (most of which are hilarious and redundant) and technology vendors are all on board. Wearables is a category that is on the up and up with the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Lenovo all investing in it. According to research firm Gartner, there will be in excesss of 26 billion internet-connected devices by 2020, so that’s a lot of data that will be generated from these suckers.
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