ALl, My feeling is that this discussion, while interesting to a number of us, is quite off-topic for NCSG. I'm also involved in research into the social, legal and ethical issues of the Internet of Things, and related cloud-computing developments. Since there seem to be a number of us here interested in these issues, though, perhaps people would be interested in a separate mailing list to discuss these issues? I can set up such a list at my University (warning - my University signed a deal with Microsoft and their email system is now provided by M$ including mailing lists :-( ) if people are interested. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/