However, high-profile hacks are becoming big stories, with the adultery website Ashley Madison data dump being just the latest in a long line of security breaches and data abuse, from the revelations of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 to the cyber-theft at Sony last year.
If you think your digital identity and personal data are not being protected, then what the coming era of the "Internet of Things" promises will shock you. For now, the physical world remains unconnected, but some predict that by 2020 as many as 50 billion devices and objects will be connected to the internet. Why does this matter? The data collected by a new generation of cameras, TVs, smart kettles and connected fridges will put patterns of your personal information and behaviour into vast databases on cloud servers .... http://www.scmp.com
