If anything, when we're talking about something like IoT, that's an area in which we particularly need stronger privacy rules and clear knowledge of how our information is being used. Let's recognize what that is.
If we're talking about giving companies the right to listen in through our televisions or through our smart fridges or our coffee makers or whatever it happens to be, the notion that somehow we need greater flexibility and consent.... Let's understand that for years we had that flexibility and consent under law, and that was effectively code for consumers agreeing to things they were not aware they were actually agreeing to.
If we want to see innovation and consumer acceptance of these kinds of new technologies, consumers need to know when their information is being collected and how it's being used, and the messages that go back and forth are part of that.