California may become the first state to regulate internet-of-things devices after its state legislature approved the SB-327 Information privacy: connected devices bill, Naked Security reports. Pending the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., the bill would go into effect Jan. 1, 2020, and require “a manufacturer of a connected device, as those terms are defined, to equip the device with a reasonable security feature or features that are appropriate to the nature and function of the device, appropriate to the information it may collect, contain, or transmit, and designed to protect the device and any information contained therein from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, as specified.”
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