Internet of the Things and Data Protection

This article aims to conceptualize the Internet of the Things, to establish what are its main characteristics, actors and relevant elements that determine it to be considered as a threat to privacy and to the protection of personal data. It will review what those threats are, the particular problems of the Internet of the Things that generate it and the protection models that have been developed to mitigate the risk of realization of these threats. It ends by proposing a model of protection in which the rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data are really protected by legal, market, technological, and social tools that act systemically and effectively to achieve the intended purpose.