Fog Computing, Edge Computing and a return to privacy and personal autonomy
Michael Martin Losavio · Procedia Computer Science · 2020
Computing in the Fog and at the Edge of the Internet of Things represent the greatest bilateral data exchange in the lives of others since the advent of the telephone. It may offer more than improved response times and reduced latency in home and personal data services. It may reintroduce user and community control over the data lives generated by remote systems introduced by the Internet of Things. At the same time the invasive risks it presents to home and personal security and privacy may increase regulatory complexity to protect those rights. External sensing of human activity through the Smart City, home and personal IOT devices with locational data introduces many complex issues, beneficial and dangerous. These issues are resolved in a legal-technical-social milieu. Together technical and legal controls for Fog and Edge computing may mediate the data avatars we produce and protect privacy, safety personal autonomy. Those controls must be in harmony, directed towards the protection of the people, and subject to sanctions for failure to comply.