ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be broadly defined as a global network infrastructure, linking uniquely identified physical and virtual objects, things, and devices through the exploitation of data capture, communication, and actuation capabilities with these objects around being connected to provide seamless communication and contextual services as an integration of the physical world with the virtual world of the Internet. The development towards an IoT is likely to give rise to a number of ethical issues and debates such as loss of trust, violations of privacy, misuse of data, ambiguity of copyright, digital divide, identify theft, problems of control and access to information, and freedom of speech and expression. IoT will be an amalgamation of both defined and to-be-defined “things.” Since IoT systems will all be interlinked and sharing information, the user must—by default—trust everything in the chain where the data will be shared.
