It can connect with your phone, alert you to emails, receive text messages, notify you of appointments and even monitor your health. But that new stylish smartwatch could very well be a gateway to stealing your personal information or worse.
With more smartwatches going on the wrists of users all of the time, and many security vulnerabilities reported for them, it pays to take a close look at what precautions should be taken to assure privacy as well as operational security. Marketing data published by C/Net said 30 million smartwatches were sold in 2015 and predicts 50 and 66.7 million in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
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