Users’ Privacy Concerns About Wearables

Motti, Vivian Genaro; Caine, Kelly

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48051-9_17

Cited by 119 publications

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“…Motti and Caine [24] found that users are unaware of the details of data collection by wearables and our research has shown that elderly people are not as critical about privacy and security of wearables suggesting that privacy and security perceptions would not hinder the deployment of wearables for safetyenhancement in elderly populations that much. In contrast, these findings are alerting for consumer-oriented wearables for the elderly as especially elderly persons have to be informed more about potential privacy and security risks.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Safety-Enhancing Locating Wearables on Passenger Ships: Privacy and Security Perceptions by the Elderly

Kwee-Meier¹,

Altendorf²,

Mertens³

et al. 2016

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Wearables are intimate solutions for a variety of purposes and could enhance safety on large passenger ships in cases of evacuations. Today's cruise ships offer capacities of up to 8000 passengers. From a technological point of view, wearables offer support for electronic mustering and more efficient possibilities to search for passengers. However, privacy and security perceptions of wearables have so far remained unclear for safety-critical areas. Moreover, the population on large passenger ships is characterized by a relatively high average age. Therefore, we investigated the results of a survey with 2085 passengers for the relationships between demographic data and privacy and security perceptions. Additionally, we explored potential influences of personal attitudes. Evidence was found that privacy concern and perceived security risk are influenced by age but not by gender. Interestingly, the effect of age on both variables is negative and stronger for security than for privacy perceptions. The individual need for safety contributes to explain both variables significantly. In conclusion, privacy concern and perceived security risk decrease with increasing age and need for safety.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Safety-Enhancing Locating Wearables on Passenger Ships: Privacy and Security Perceptions by the Elderly

Kwee-Meier¹,

Altendorf²,

Mertens³

et al. 2016

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Even though this study gave a preliminary understanding of privacy concerns, the study focused only on information sharing behavior which can be completely controlled by the user. In addition, Motti and Caine [16] explored the privacy concerns related to different kinds of wearables based on comments from online sources. Although online comments can provide some idea about privacy concerns, online comments and reviews mostly follow a bimodal distribution due to extremely negative or positive experiences [12].…”

Section: Conceptual Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy Concerns Regarding Wearable IoT Devices: How it is Influenced by GDPR?

Paul

Scheibe

Nilakanta

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Internet of Things (IoT) devices have implications for health and fitness. Fitness wearables can promote healthy behavior and improve an individual's overall health and quality of life. Even though fitness wearables have various benefits, privacy concerns regarding the data collected remain as a major barrier to adoption of fitness wearables. Intrinsic factors like disposition to value privacy and extrinsic factors like privacy policies and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can influence users' privacy concerns. This research uses experimental design to understand how these factors influence privacy concerns.The results suggest that GDPR reduces the average privacy concerns of users. The study also shows that higher perception of effectiveness of privacy policy reduces the perception of privacy risks and increases the perception of privacy control. This study illustrates the effect of users' perceptions on factors like privacy policy, privacy control and GDPR on mitigating privacy concerns.

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“…However, they focus only on the concerns of the users and their analysis is based on an online survey and interview rather than experienced users. The paper [10] focuses on the people's privacy related to wearable devices. The authors identify potential privacy concerns about wearable's and finally conclude that users have different levels of privacy depending on types of the wearable they use.…”

Section: Privacy Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy in IoT: Expectations, Causes of Concerns, and Reasons for Concern Mitigation

Nower¹

2019

IJCA

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Internet of things (IoT) connects billions of devices, people and services, and exchanges data among them. Moreover, IoT has scalability (in terms of the number of devices and sensors), proximity, ubiquity (mass development) and connectedness property which easily violates an individual's privacy by collecting and using personal data. Thus, there is an urgent need for a privacy-preserving tool to ensure an individual's privacy requirements with transparency and control. To develop these tools it is important to understand people's privacy expectations, implications and requirements of IoT to understand how people feel about their privacy requirements. In this paper, a rigorous analysis is performed on existing different surveys and interviews to find out individual's privacy expectations from IoT sensors, privacy concerns and reasons for privacy concerns mitigations. The finding suggests that although privacy preferences are diverse and context-dependent, still some general factors that affect all.

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