Alasdair Allan
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Alasdair Allan is a Scientist, Author, Hacker, Tinkerer and Journalist who has been spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things, which .
He is the author of a , and sometimes also stands in front of cameras. You can often talking about interesting things, or to measure them. He recently rolled out a mesh network of five hundred sensors motes covering the entire of Moscone West .
A few years before that he caused a by that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a . Several years on, he still isn't sure what to think about that.
He sporadically writes , or more frequently provides commentary in . He is a , and a contributor to the .
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