John Ansbach General Counsel, GDT October 8,

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“Although mostly water, sweat also contains tiny amounts of ammonia, urea, salts, and sugar. …researchers are creating a device, about the size of a band-aid, that collects sweat and analyzes it via a connection to a smart phone.” Source: “Future Friday: Monitoring employee well-being by testing their sweat,” by Michael Haberman, October 31, 2014 Lawn care Mining Manufacturing Commercial trucking

“…the concept of … connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes everything from cell phones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of.” Source: Forbes

Almost a 5-fold increase in the # of IoT devices in 8 short years PCs smartphones IoT devices billion connected devices by 2020

82% of businesses using or planning to use IoT by 2017

Potential market value of IoT at $19 trillion -- Former Cisco CEO John Chambers

So where are we seeing IoT now and where will we see IoT in the coming months and years?

In the home and workplace, thermostats, CO2 monitors and cameras can detect events, movement and changes in environment and contact 911

Google announced a partnership with Novartis to develop a connected contact lens with the potential to monitor the wearer’s blood sugar levels The lens uses miniature sensors and a radio antenna thinner than a human hair to track glucose levels, which could then be monitored by smart phones Source: NY Times, July 15, 2014

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Florida Hospital Celebration Health Badged all nurses and patients at one of its 200- bed facilities (RTLS – real time location services) Badges show real-time location; they also create a tremendous amount of data for workflow analysis

Hospital was able to improve nurse working conditions after analyzing the data towards a better understanding of workplace demands

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Trying cases Counseling clients

Trying cases  New evidence in new places ▪ Sensors in light fixtures, clothes, shoes, cars and other ‘things’ will generate tremendous amounts of data ▪ That will be sent to someone’s cloud or on-premise server ▪ Discovery requests will have to be informed by the possibilities of IoT in order to know what questions to ask and where to look for evidence

New causes of action will also arise “In federal court in San Francisco [ ], Marc Stanley filed a class action against the car- makers claiming they have failed to “address a defect that allows cars to be hacked and control wrested away from the driver.”

Counseling your clients  Data security and privacy concerns ▪ This year there were ~5 billion connected devices and at that # we saw data breaches on a regular basis ▪ Imagine what we’ll have in 2020 when there are 5-10 times as many connected things, roughly billion… ▪ Lawyers will have to guide and counsel their clients on how to deal with the significant risk associated with so much IoT-generated data (a staggering 400 zettabytes (ZB) of data / yr by 2018, according to Cisco. 1ZB = 1 trillion GB)

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