LAST-JD-RIoE · Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate: Rights of the Internet of Everything

Internet of Everything (IoE) is one of the major technological trends, going beyond the ongoing Internet of Things erafocused only on connecting devices. IoE looks at the connection of devices, persons and data via processes: “IoE connectsthe unconnected with ever-smarter technology. It brings people together with process, data, and things.” If on the one hand itis considered as a huge opportunity estimated at 19b$ it presents new complexities and risks for our life and economy.The big data is an essential pillar of the IoE . Thus, including more explicitly persons and data concerning them, IoE cannotbe limited to engineering and computer science, but is a topic that needs to be investigated with scientific interdisciplinaryresearches under different perspectives: technical, legal, economical, ethical, philosophical point of view: it “involves acomplex and evolving set of technological, social, and policy considerations across a diverse set of stakeholders.”Privacy, Intellectual Proprietary Rights, Data Ownership, Super-control of people behavior, Fundamental Rights, Ethicalprinciples are critical issues that could determine the success of IoE in the market . Algorithms which are at the core of thedevices all around us, expected to be tens of billions in 2020, must be governed.IoE is already entering the H2020 work programme even if only the IoT is mentioned in the calls. The attention to nontechnologicalaspects is reflected in the H2020 objectives ICT-35-2016 of LEIT and REV-INEQUAL-09-2017 of SC5 focus onthe need of including SSH sciences for a critical analysis of the problems raised by pervasive technologies. However, ifresearch projects are a way to face these problems, the needed competences are lacking, since they are highlyinterdisciplinary and, from the legal point of view, they require an international perspective.For these reasons we present a MSCA-ITN European Joint Doctorate proposal.