Can We Have Any Privacy in the Internet of Things Era?

We're embarking on an era when everyday objects will be connected to the Internet, whether it's devices in our home or it's devices we wear. Gigaom's Jeff John Roberts notes that digital privacy already is pretty limited. How will things look when even more objects are connected to the Internet? The problem, he says, is that Internet-connected objects "will start to pull all sorts of people — even those who aren’t on the Internet in the first place — into connected databases through photo tagging and other sensor features." ACLU's Jay Stanley offers some hope, arguing that, as a society, we may be embarking on a new level of awareness about the importance of privacy.