Sustainability and The Smart Home: The Challenges of an Interconnected Environment

This paper would like to be a bridge between technical and legal knowledge as far as the construction of environmentally sustainable and privacy compliant homes is concerned. Uniting data protection law as the leading legal subject guiding us through the Digital Revolution with the SDG30 objectives is already the preferable option for housing in unsettled times like the ones we are living. This paper will analyse the actual weakness of the current smart home from a data protection point of view and will argue that the principle of privacy by design and by default is already influencing new techniques that could fix the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm from within. It is wished that the interdisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and technical experts becomes stronger as regulation will never be able to keep up with the pace of technology