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- Worn on the Sleeve
- Log In
- Focus
- Critical Mass
- Update
- Support
- First Mover
- Datagram
- QnA
- Reboot
- Excerpt from Worn on the Sleeve:
Currently estimated at $1.6 billion, the wearable device market is expected to grow to $5 billion in revenue by 2016, according to Gartner. If upcoming releases like Google Glass (scheduled for mass distribution later this year) prove as popular as smartphones and tablets—whose combined revenue topped $66 billion in 2013, according to the Consumer Electronics Association—wearable devices stand to become a major new realm in technology.
But the technology is already garnering a lot of attention from lawyers and lawmakers with concerns about how the devices—and the information they collect—can be misused. Wearable devices are just one more example of how technology gets ahead of the law, says Gabriel Meister, a New York-based partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Technology Transactions Group. “Often, the legislative response to perceived risks is very blunt, until we figure out exactly what the risks are.”
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