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‘No such thing as net neutrality’ with IoT: technology expert

Media | 10/20/2015 6:21 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Concern about the equal treatment of all data transmitted over the Internet is going to have to take a backseat with the Internet of Things (IoT), a California-based technology-security expert said at the Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC) in Ottawa on Tuesday. Tyson Macaulay, chief technology officer with Intel Corp.'s telecommunications security division, said during a panel discussion about the IoT: "On the IoT, there's no such thing as net neutrality. ... Your email is simply not as important as a voice call from a health-monitoring system for an elderly person. Or your track-of-control information related to your car that's moving...