On the point about the usefulness of ICR data itself, May was asked to respond to other evidence heard by the committee that, for example, smartphones being constantly connected to the Internet will mean that collecting a list of connected services would offer only a very muddy intelligence signal.
"Other people will need to be constantly connected to feel secure," he added.
They are constantly connected to multiple devices in order to know what and whom they need to know.
Now it looks like consumers, too, will soon be able to roam about while constantly connected to their own personal clouds.
To some this seems like a good idea, but we can end up hiding from one another, even as we are constantly connected to one another.
We are in the midst of a technological transformation where everyday objects are becoming smarter and constantly connected to the cloud.
Technology has made me more wired than ever before: constantly connected to an effervescent network of so-called friends, most of whom I have never seen in real life.
Although the battle would seem to have been won long ago, this issue is starting to come back with a vengeance, not for manufacturing workers but for highly skilled white-collar workers, many of whom are constantly connected to work.
Jacobs, who cited the explosive growth of and advances made in cell phone technology as one of the biggest surprises of his career, suggested that soon we will be constantly connected to the Internet through our mobile phones.
Myriam El Khomri, the French minister of labor, commissioned a report that catalogued the health impact of being constantly connected to work even when people were physically away from their workplaces.
"You will be in the middle of your personal Internet of things, constantly connected to all of your information in real time". From this point forward, RIM becomes BlackBerry". So he's changing the company name.
