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around us. Dr. John Blythe is research associate at the Dawes Center for Future Crime at

University College London, where he works on the Consumer Security Index part of the Petrus Internet

of Things Research Hub. The Petrus Internet of Things Research Hub is a consortium of nine leading United Kingdom

universities that are working together over three years to explore critical issues in privacy,

ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.

Dr. Blythe previously held positions at the UCL Center for Behavior trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.

Dr. Blythe previously held positions at the UCL Center for Behavior Change, the Department

for Digital Culture, Media, and Sport, and PACT Lab at Northumbria University.

His research focuses on exploring behavior, change, and cybersecurity.

Thank you for joining us, Dr. Blythe.

Thank you for having us.

So the Center for Future Crime, that's kind of an intriguing name.

What does that mean to study future crime?

So the Center for Future Crime, we seek to focus essentially on horizon scanning.

What are the crimes that may arise from technological change or societal changes of the future and try to design out these risks

through policy and regulation.

So your research looks at security issues around the Internet of Things.

Could you explain for people what the Internet of Things is? Certainly. So the Internet of Things is essentially everyday objects with the ability to connect to an exchange data over the Internet.

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