Big and getting bigger; there are already more connected things (Internet of Things) than people in the world. Analyst Gartner calculates that around 8.4 billion IoT devices were in use in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and this will likely reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on IoT endpoints and services will reach almost $2tn in 2017, with two-thirds of those devices found in China, North America and Western Europe, said Gartner.

Out of that 8.4 billion devices, more than half will be consumer products like smart TVs and smart speakers. The most-used enterprise IoT devices will be smart electric meters and commercial security cameras, according to Gartner.

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Truly, with Big Data and IOT, the world is not save.

Watch how the biggest data hosting nations use it to theirs' and only to their advantage.
(America last election comes to mind)


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