The Internet of scary things

Posted Feb 2, 2017 18:20 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: The Internet of scary things by NAR
Parent article: The Internet of scary things

In the UK, at least, we should be able to apply the existing legislation on satisfactory quality by having the courts agree that an insecure IoT device is also not safe. That's enough to permit the buyer to reclaim all losses that they incur as a direct result of the device being insecure from the vendor (e.g. a supermarket).

If this right was widely used against vendors of IoT devices in the UK, shops would not stock devices unless they were confident that those losses would not happen.