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The lack of standards and best practices documentations poses a major limitation to the potential of IoT and wearable devices. Without standards to guide manufacturers and developers, these products that often operate in a disruptive manner would lead to interoperability issues and might have negative impacts if poorly designed and configured. Such devices can have adverse consequences on the network resources they connect to and the broader Internet. Unfortunately, most of this comes down to cost constraints and the pressuring need to release a product to the market quicker than competitors. Moreover, there is a wide range of regulatory and legal questions surrounding the IoT and wearable technology, which require thoughtful consideration.

Legal issues with IoT and wearable devices may include conflicts between governmental surveillance and civil rights; policies of data retention and destruction; legal liability/penalty for unintended uses; and security breaches or privacy abuses. Furthermore, technology is advancing much faster than the associated policy and regulatory environments which might render policies and regulations to be inappropriate.

Big data presents another serious challenge. The analysis, extraction, manipulation, storage, and processing of substantial amounts of data may pose other legal problems as in profiling, behavior analysis, and monitoring. Big data may require new protection policies, international coordination, and infrastructure management, among others.

Furthermore, the cloud and even the Internet itself are not tied to one specific geographic location. Moreover, the sheer amount of IoT and wearable devices originate from a number of different sources, including international partners and vendors, which makes it impossible for a localized regulatory authority to enforce quality control or standardized tests.

As yet, these challenges have been minimally acted upon by policy makers. However, they reflect a pressing necessity to seek government solutions to both pronounce the strengths of these technologies and deploy policies to minimize their risks.