Journal articles: 'Privacy for smart workplaces'

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Lemos, Janaína, Pedro D. Gaspar, and Tânia M. Lima. "Environmental Risk Assessment and Management in Industry 4.0: A Review of Technologies and Trends." Machines 10, no. 8 (August 17, 2022): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines10080702.

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In recent decades, concern with workers’ health has become a priority in several countries, but statistics still show that it is urgent to perform more actions to prevent accidents and illnesses related to work. Industry 4.0 is a new production paradigm that has brought significant advances in the relationship between man and machine, driving a series of advances in the production process and new challenges in occupational safety and health (OSH). This paper addresses occupational risks, diseases, opportunities, and challenges in Industry 4.0. It also covers Internet-of-Things-related technologies that, by the real-time measurement and analysis of occupational conditions, can be used to create smart solutions to contribute to reducing the number of workplace accidents and for the promotion of healthier and safer workplaces. Proposals involving smart personal protective equipment (smart PPE) and monitoring systems are analyzed, and aspects regarding the use of artificial intelligence and the data privacy concerns are also discussed.

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Chigona, W. "Synchronised smart phones: The collision of personal privacy and organisational data security." South African Journal of Business Management 43, no. 2 (June 29, 2012): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v43i2.181.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the organisational and individual motivations for incorporating personally-owned smart phones into the workplace and challenges arising from use; privacy and data security concerns of involved parties in the organisation. This study uses exploratory case study method and investigates privacy and security regarding personally-owned smart-phone usage in workplace. The study found that convenience, ease of use and access to emails were motives behind employees’ use of personal smart phones in the workplace. Further, employees have higher privacy expectation. Sample for this study was small to provide statistically meaningful results, Further research is needed to cover a larger case study spanning multiple organisations in other sectors. Mobile devices are creating challenges to organisational data security and employees’ right to information privacy. This study suggests that organisations need to reconsider data security and employees’ privacy policies to address possible conflict between data security and employees’ privacy.

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Princi, Evgenia, and Nicole C. Krämer. "Acceptance of Smart Electronic Monitoring at Work as a Result of a Privacy Calculus Decision." Informatics 6, no. 3 (September 10, 2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics6030040.

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Smart technology in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT) that extensively gathers user data in order to provide full functioning has become ubiquitous in our everyday life. At the workplace, individual’s privacy is especially threatened by the deployment of smart monitoring technology due to unbalanced power relations. In this work we argue that employees’ acceptance of smart monitoring systems can be predicted based on privacy calculus considerations and trust. Therefore, in an online experiment (N = 661) we examined employees’ acceptance of a smart emergency detection system, depending on the rescue value of the system and whether the system’s tracking is privacy-invading or privacy-preserving. We hypothesized that trust in the employer, perceived benefits and risks serve as predictors of system acceptance. Moreover, the moderating effect of privacy concerns is analyzed.

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A.Nagavardhan N.Dinesh, M.Gopla D Anirudh, Polaiah Bojja, Pamula Raja Kumari,. "Development of Solar-Powered of Sensors Based Smart Waste Monitoring System." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 5 (April 11, 2021): 580–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i5.1056.

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Dustbins (or Garbage Bins, Trash Cans, whatever you name them) are small containers of plastic or metal used on a temporary basis to store trash (or waste). They are also used for the collection of waste in houses, workplaces, highways, parks, etc. Littering is a major crime in some countries, and public waste bins are also the only way to dispose of small waste. Usually, using different bins for handling wet or dry, recyclable or non-recyclable waste is a common practice. From an ETS perspective, smart waste collection can help municipalities and private waste management companies avoid the need for collection sites, waste disposal facilities and waste treatment plants. As communities increasingly rely on smart city technology to improve, among other things, the quality of life of their residents and the environment, city leaders recognize that smart waste management can also help them achieve sustainability goals such as zero waste and improve services to residents, while improving service to residents. As an example, Development of Some solar-powered bins and recycling bins are already equipped with sensors that analyze data on what is disposed of or recycled and notify collectors when the bin is too full and needs to be picked up. These developed Smart waste management solutions use sensors placed in waste bins to measure levels, notify municipal waste collection services, when the bins are ready to be emptied, and also notify municipal waste collection with a ton has been emptied. Therefore, the solar-powered of sensors based smart waste monitoring system is more and more useful to the current smart cities policies under the smart city project works.

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Madden, Andrew D., Sophie Rutter, Catherine Stones, and Wenbo Ai. "Smart Hand Sanitisers in the Workplace: A Survey of Attitudes towards an Internet of Things Technology." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 15 (August 3, 2022): 9531. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159531.

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An online survey was circulated to employees from a wide range of organisations to gauge attitudes towards the idea of using smart hand sanitisers in the workplace. The sanitisers are capable of real-time monitoring and providing feedback that varies according to the hand hygiene behaviour of users. In certain circumstances, the sanitisers can monitor individuals, making it possible to identify workers whose hand hygiene falls below a certain standard. The survey was circulated between July and August 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data gathered from 314 respondents indicated support for some features of the technology, but also indicated concern about invasions of privacy and the possibility of coercion. Attitudes towards the possible implementation of the technology varied significantly according to certain characteristics of the sample, but particularly with age. Respondents above the median age were more likely to support the use of data in ways that could facilitate the promotion and enforcement of hand hygiene practices.

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Sen, Volkan, Ozgu Aydogdu, Tarik Yonguc, Ibrahim Halil Bozkurt, and Deniz Bolat. "Telerounding & telementoring for urological procedures." Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia 88, no. 3 (October 5, 2016): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2016.3.206.

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Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology. Starting out over forty years ago with demonstrations of hospitals extending care to patients in remote areas, the use of telemedicine has spread rapidly and is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operations of hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumer’s homes and workplaces. There’s also a current trend in the use of telemedicine in urology. In the present paper we aimed to review the recent literature about telemedicine and the use of telerounding and telementoring in urological procedures.

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Cooper, Peter Benjamin, Konstantinos Maraslis, Theo Tryfonas, and George Oikonomou. "An intelligent hot-desking model harnessing the power of occupancy sensing data." Facilities 35, no. 13/14 (October 3, 2017): 766–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-01-2016-0014.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to harness occupancy sensing in a commercial hot-desking environment. Hot-desking is a method of office resource management designed to reduce the real estate costs of professional practices. However, the shortcoming is often in the suitability and appropriateness of allocated work environments. The Internet of Things could produce new data sets in the office at a resolution, speed and validity of which that they could be factored into desk-allocation, distributing seats based on appropriate noise levels, stay length, equipment requirements, previous presence and proximity to others working on the same project, among many others. Design/methodology/approach The study utilises primary data from a commercial office environment in Central London (numerical building system data and semi-structured interviews) to feed a discrete events simulator. To test the hypothesis, the authors look at the potential for intelligent hot-desking to use “work type” data to improve the distribution of individuals in the office, increasing productivity through the creation of positive “work type environments” – where those working on specific tasks perform better when grouped with others doing the same task. The simulation runs for a typical work day, and the authors compare the intelligent hot-desking arrangement to a base case. Findings The study shows that sensor data can be used for desk allocation in a hot-desking environment utilising activity-based working, with results that outweigh the costs of occupancy detection. The authors are not only able to optimise desk utilisation based on quality occupancy data but also demonstrate how overall productivity increases as individuals are allocated desks of their preference as much as possible among other enabling optimisations that can be applied. Moreover, the authors explore how an increase in occupancy data collection in the private sector could have key advantages for the business as an organization and the city as a whole. Research limitations/implications The research explores only one possible incarnation of intelligent hot-desking, and the authors presume that all data have already been collected, and while not insurmountable, they do not discuss the technical or cultural difficulties to this end. Furthermore, final examination of the productivity benefit – because of the difficulty in defining and measuring the concept – is exploratory rather than definitive. This research suggests that not only human-centric smart building research should be prioritised over energy or space-based themes but also large-scale private sector collection of occupancy data may be imminent, and its potential should be examined. Practical implications Findings strongly suggest that the hot-desking may cost more in lost productivity than it gains in reduced rental costs and as such many commercial offices should revaluate the transition, particularly with a view to facilitate intelligent hot-desking. Companies should begin to think strategically about the wider benefits of collecting occupancy data across their real estate portfolio, rather than reviewing use cases in silos. Finally, cities should consider scenarios of widespread collection of occupancy data in the private sector, examining the value these data have to city systems such as transport, and how the city might procure it for these ends. Social implications This paper raises positive and negative social concerns. The value in occupancy data suggested herein, bringing with it the implication it should be collected en mass, has a noted concern that this brings privacy concerns. As such, policy and regulation should heed that current standards should be reviewed to ensure they are sufficient to protect those in offices from being unfairly discriminated, spied or exploited through occupancy data. However, the improved use of occupancy data improving workplaces could indeed make them more enjoyable places to work, and have the potential to become a staple in company’s corporate social responsibility policies. Originality/value This paper fulfils an identified need for better understanding the specific uses of occupancy data in the smart building mantra. Several sources suggest the current research focus on energy and rental costs is misguided when the holistic cost of an office is considered, and concepts related to staff – although less understood – may have an order of magnitude bigger impact. This research supports this hypothesis through the example of intelligent hot-desking. The value of this paper lies in redirecting industry and research towards the considering occupancy data in smart building uses cases including – but not limited to– intelligent hot-desking.

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Jabłońska, Joanna. "Urban Noise Pollution Prevention — Tokyo Case Study." Polish Political Science Review 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 101–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2020-0018.

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AbstractNowadays most of the world’s metropolises, cities, and conglomerations are substantially contaminated by noise. Development of civilization based on the intensification of car, rail, and air traffic, an increase of building density and, consequently, green areas reduction has led to major problems. Highlighting this negative phenomenon was one of the main objectives of this article. The process of noise pollution reduction is hindered not only by the needs of population growth, but also in a number of selected cities of the United States, Europe or Asia — aggressive sounds together with light and visual communications — emitted into public space, become an important element of commercial activities and remain a permanent, and even desirable, element of community culture and entertainment. The outlined problems are referred to in the introduction and discussion parts of this manuscript. At the same time, there are a number of solutions, both those currently applied and those possible to be introduced into the space of cities, which allow reduction of noise in selected zones of public and private sectors. One of the examples in the discussed field of science and practice is Tokyo — a multi-million metropolis, in which residents can experience silence both in workplaces, on streets and at home, despite the extraordinary civilization development of this metropolitan structure. Outcome analysis of solutions, used in the example city, forms the second part of the discussion in the article. Nowadays, when cities of the world are polluted with unwanted sounds, this case study is valuable, allowing the formulation of a set of clear recommendations for noise limitation in urban spaces — which are presented in the conclusions of the article. It is also worth mentioning that the spread of smart and humanized solutions aimed at noise reduction is crucial in order to build user- and environment-friendly urban environments in the near future.

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S. Alotaibi, Leena, and Sultan S. Alshamrani. "Smart Contract: Security and Privacy." Computer Systems Science and Engineering 38, no. 1 (2021): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.32604/csse.2021.015547.

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van Zoonen, Liesbet. "Privacy concerns in smart cities." Government Information Quarterly 33, no. 3 (July 2016): 472–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2016.06.004.

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Rial, Alfredo, George Danezis, and Markulf Kohlweiss. "Privacy-preserving smart metering revisited." International Journal of Information Security 17, no. 1 (November 28, 2016): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0355-8.

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Errichiello, Luisa, and Tommasina Pianese. "Toward a theory on workplaces for smart workers." Facilities 38, no. 3/4 (October 26, 2019): 298–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-11-2018-0137.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main features of smart work centers (SWCs) and show how these innovative offices would support the implementation of smart working and related changes in workspaces (“bricks”), technologies (“bytes”) and organizational practices (“behaviors”). Design/methodology/approach In this study, scientific literature is combined with white papers and business reports and visits to 14 workplaces, including offices designed as SWCs, co-working spaces, one telecenter, one accelerator and one fab lab. Primary data were collected through interviews with managers and users and non-participant observation, whereas secondary data included web-sites, brochures, presentations, press releases and official documents. Findings The authors developed research propositions about how the design of spaces and the availability of technology within SWCs would support the “bricks” and “bytes” levers of smart working. More importantly, the authors assumed that this new type of workplace would sustain changes in employees’ behaviors and managers’ practices, thus helping to overcome several challenges traditionally associated with remote working. Research limitations/implications The exploratory nature of the research only provides preliminary information about the role of SWCs within smart working programs. Additional qualitative and quantitative empirical investigation is required. Practical implications This study provides valuable knowledge about how the design of corporate offices can be leveraged to sustain the implementation of smart working. Originality/value This study advances knowledge on workplaces by focusing on an innovative design of traditional offices (SWC). It also lays the foundations for future investigation aimed at testing the developed propositions.

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KAHKASHAN, SIDDAVATAM, BANKAR SONAL, and YADAV SULBHA. "MANAGING DATA PRIVACY IN SMART HEALTH AND SMART VEHICLE." i-manager’s Journal on Wireless Communication Networks 7, no. 1 (2018): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jwcn.7.1.15319.

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Chhetri, Chola, and Vivian Genaro Motti. "User-Centric Privacy Controls for Smart Homes." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, CSCW2 (November 7, 2022): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555769.

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The widespread adoption of smart home devices (SHD) has increased privacy concerns among users, yet user-friendly controls are lacking. While there is a large body of research focused on understanding privacy concerns and threat models of SHD users, there is limited research so far aimed at informing the development of privacy controls in SHDs. This paper presents the results of 25 interviews focused on characterizing the users' needs for privacy controls. Through qualitative analysis of interview data, we present 7 design factors and 32 sub-factors for the design of privacy controls in SHDs. The interview findings inform the design of a survey that was deployed to 440 adult SHD users to gain quantitative insights on privacy control requirements and to complement the interview findings. Based on the findings, we discuss a privacy control framework that guides designers towards user-centric privacy controls.

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Al-Ghaith, Waleed. "Emerging Applications on Smart Phones: The Role of Privacy Concerns and its Antecedents on Smart Phones Usage." International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology 13, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijcsit.2021.13204.

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Many applications on smart Phones can use various sensors embedded in the mobiles to provide users’ private information. This can result in a variety of privacy issues that may lessening level of mobile apps usage. To understand this issue better the researcher identified the root causes of privacy concerns. The study proposed a model identifies the root causes of privacy concerns and perceived benefits based on our interpretation for information boundary theory. The proposed model also addresses the usage behavior and behavioral intention toward using mobile apps by using the Theory of Planned Behavior. The result shows that “Cultural values” alone explains 70% of “Perceived privacy concerns” followed by “Self-defense” which explains around 23% of “Perceived privacy concerns”, and then “Context of the situation” with 5%. Whereas, the findings show that “Perceived effectiveness of privacy policy” and “Perceived effectiveness of industry self-regulation” both are factors which have the ability to reduce individuals “Perceived privacy concerns” by 9% and 8% respectively.

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Adel Mohammad A. Binyaseen, Adel Mohammad A. Binyaseen. "Workplace Environment and Productivity: Employees' Reaction towards the Quality of Physical Environment in Rented Saudi Workplaces." journal of king abdulaziz university environmental design Science 6, no. 1 (January 7, 2009): 123–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4197/env.6-1.6.

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Research concerned with enhancing productivity in workplaces has considered physical environment as a key issue. Recent trends in workplace design always call for the need to use physical environment as a tool to encourage productivity. Due to the growing evidence which relates physical environment with productivity, this paper examines employees' satisfaction with their physical environment in five rented Saudi workplaces. The research is prompted by the need to demonstrate to Saudi governmental organizations that the existing situation of rented workplaces does not provide employees with enough support to perform their jobs effectively. Results out of five rented workplaces belonging to Municipality of Makkah revealed some dissatisfaction of different staff groups with nine important aspects of physical environment in workplaces. Satisfaction with Privacy, services and workspace area were found to be the strongest predictors of overall workplace satisfaction (OWS). Moreover, employees considered satisfaction with these predictors as important factors to achieve productivity.

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Mhaidli, Abraham, Manikandan Kandadai Venkatesh, Yixin Zou, and Florian Schaub. "Listen Only When Spoken To: Interpersonal Communication Cues as Smart Speaker Privacy Controls." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2020, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 251–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/popets-2020-0026.

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AbstractInternet of Things and smart home technologies pose challenges for providing effective privacy controls to users, as smart devices lack both traditional screens and input interfaces. We investigate the potential for leveraging interpersonal communication cues as privacy controls in the IoT context, in particular for smart speakers. We propose privacy controls based on two kinds of interpersonal communication cues – gaze direction and voice volume level – that only selectively activate a smart speaker’s microphone or voice recognition when the device is being addressed, in order to avoid constant listening and speech recognition by the smart speaker microphones and reduce false device activation. We implement these privacy controls in a smart speaker prototype and assess their feasibility, usability and user perception in two lab studies. We find that privacy controls based on interpersonal communication cues are practical, do not impair the smart speaker’s functionality, and can be easily used by users to selectively mute the microphone. Based on our findings, we discuss insights regarding the use of interpersonal cues as privacy controls for smart speakers and other IoT devices.

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Zavalyshyn, Igor, Axel Legay, Annanda Rath, and Etienne Rivière. "SoK: Privacy-enhancing Smart Home Hubs." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2022, no. 4 (October 2022): 24–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.56553/popets-2022-0097.

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Smart homes are IoT systems enabling the automation of household operation. The unrestricted collection and processing of data by smart home systems raises legitimate privacy concerns for their users. Over the past decade, there has been significant interest in privacy-enhancing technologies applied at the level of a local smart hub physically located in the home and acting as a gateway between sensors, applications, platform providers, and services in the cloud. The number and variety of projects and research proposals can, however, make their comparison a daunting and unnecessarily complex task. We systematize existing knowledge in this field through the analysis and categorization of 10 industrial and community-contributed systems and 37 research proposals from the literature of the past 11 years. Our results shed light on the diversity of system and trust models considered in the state-of-the-art and on the associated privacy-enhancing technologies. We further identify open research problems and promising approaches that would benefit the smart home hub model and the protection of smart home users’ privacy.

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Vorakulpipat, Chalee, Ryan K. L. Ko, Qi Li, and Ahmed Meddahi. "Security and Privacy in Smart Cities." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (August 4, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9830547.

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Malkin, Nathan, Joe Deatrick, Allen Tong, Primal Wijesekera, Serge Egelman, and David Wagner. "Privacy Attitudes of Smart Speaker Users." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2019, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 250–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/popets-2019-0068.

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Abstract As devices with always-on microphones located in people’s homes, smart speakers have significant privacy implications. We surveyed smart speaker owners about their beliefs, attitudes, and concerns about the recordings that are made and shared by their devices. To ground participants’ responses in concrete interactions, rather than collecting their opinions abstractly, we framed our survey around randomly selected recordings of saved interactions with their devices. We surveyed 116 owners of Amazon and Google smart speakers and found that almost half did not know that their recordings were being permanently stored and that they could review them; only a quarter reported reviewing interactions, and very few had ever deleted any. While participants did not consider their own recordings especially sensitive, they were more protective of others’ recordings (such as children and guests) and were strongly opposed to use of their data by third parties or for advertising. They also considered permanent retention, the status quo, unsatisfactory. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for more agreeable data retention policies and future privacy controls.

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Sankar, Lalitha, S. R. Rajagopalan, Soheil Mohajer, and H. V. Poor. "Smart Meter Privacy: A Theoretical Framework." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 4, no. 2 (June 2013): 837–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2012.2211046.

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Engel, Dominik, and Gunther Eibl. "Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Smart Meter Privacy." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 8, no. 4 (July 2017): 1710–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2015.2504395.

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Zeadally, Sherali, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Cristina Alcaraz, and Mohamad Badra. "Towards Privacy Protection in Smart Grid." Wireless Personal Communications 73, no. 1 (December 16, 2012): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0939-1.

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Gómez Mármol, Félix, Christoph Sorge, Ronald Petrlic, Osman Ugus, Dirk Westhoff, and Gregorio Martínez Pérez. "Privacy-enhanced architecture for smart metering." International Journal of Information Security 12, no. 2 (November 28, 2012): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-012-0181-6.

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Finster, Soren, and Ingmar Baumgart. "Privacy-Aware Smart Metering: A Survey." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 16, no. 3 (2014): 1732–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/surv.2014.052914.00090.

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Finster, Soren, and Ingmar Baumgart. "Privacy-Aware Smart Metering: A Survey." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 17, no. 2 (2015): 1088–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/comst.2015.2425958.

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Asghar, Muhammad Rizwan, Gyorgy Dan, Daniele Miorandi, and Imrich Chlamtac. "Smart Meter Data Privacy: A Survey." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 19, no. 4 (2017): 2820–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/comst.2017.2720195.

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Engel, Dominik. "Enhancing privacy in smart energy systems." e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 137, no. 1 (December 17, 2019): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00502-019-00779-4.

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AbstractThe mission to move from fossil to renewable energy sources is accompanied and enabled by the digitalization of our energy systems. With the introduction of information and communication technologies, the widespread integration of distributed, renewable sources, even in the distribution grid, are enabled. New use cases such as fast EV charging, local energy communities and dynamic energy tariffs are also enabled. However, this move toward digitalization also increases the exposure of the energy systems for cybercrime and raises concerns regarding the privacy of personal data. In this article, we address the issue of privacy in smart energy systems and give an overview of current methods to enhance privacy.

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Windl, Maximiliane, Alexander Hiesinger, Robin Welsch, Albrecht Schmidt, and Sebastian S. Feger. "SaferHome: interactive physical and digital smart home dashboards for communicating privacy assessments to owners and bystanders." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, ISS (November 14, 2022): 680–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3567739.

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Private homes are increasingly becoming smart spaces. While smart homes promise comfort, they expose most intimate spaces to security and privacy risks. Unfortunately, most users today are not equipped with the right tools to assess the vulnerabilities or privacy practices of smart devices. Further, users might lose track of the devices installed in their homes or are unaware of devices placed by a partner or host. We developed SaferHome, an interactive digital-physical privacy framework, to provide smart home users with security and privacy assessments and a sense of device location. SaferHome includes a digital list view and physical and digital dashboards that map real floor plans. We evaluated SaferHome with eight households in the wild. We find that users adopted various strategies to integrate the dashboards into their understanding and interpretation of smart home privacy. We present implications for the design of future smart home privacy frameworks that are impacted by technical affinity, device types, device ownership, and tangibility of assessments.

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Hur, Jun, Dong Koo, and Young Shin. "Privacy-Preserving Smart Metering with Authentication in a Smart Grid." Applied Sciences 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 1503–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app5041503.

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Park, Hyun-Moon, Byung-Chan Jeon, Won-Ki Park, Soo-Hyun Park, and Sung-Chul Lee. "Smart-clothes System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smart-phones." Journal of Korea Multimedia Society 16, no. 8 (August 31, 2013): 962–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2013.16.8.962.

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Márquez-Sánchez, Sergio, Israel Campero-Jurado, Daniel Robles-Camarillo, Sara Rodríguez, and Juan M. Corchado-Rodríguez. "BeSafe B2.0 Smart Multisensory Platform for Safety in Workplaces." Sensors 21, no. 10 (May 12, 2021): 3372. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21103372.

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Wearable technologies are becoming a profitable means of monitoring a person’s health state, such as heart rate and physical activity. The use of the smartwatch is becoming consolidated, not only as a novelty but also as a very useful tool for daily use. In addition, other devices, such as helmets or belts, are beneficial for monitoring workers and the early detection of any anomaly. They can provide valuable information, especially in work environments, where they help reduce the rate of accidents and occupational diseases, which makes them powerful Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The constant monitoring of the worker’s health can be done in real-time, through temperature, falls, noise, impacts, or heart rate meters, activating an audible and vibrating alarm when an anomaly is detected. The gathered information is transmitted to a server in charge of collecting and processing it. In the first place, this paper provides an exhaustive review of the state of the art on works related to electronics for human activity behavior. After that, a smart multisensory bracelet, combined with other devices, developed a control platform that can improve operators’ security in the working environment. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (AIoT) bring together the information to improve safety on construction sites, power stations, power lines, etc. Real-time and historic data is used to monitor operators’ health and a hybrid system between Gaussian Mixture Model and Human Activity Classification. That is, our contribution is also founded on the use of two machine learning models, one based on unsupervised learning and the other one supervised. Where the GMM gave us a performance of 80%, 85%, 70%, and 80% for the 4 classes classified in real time, the LSTM obtained a result under the confusion matrix of 0.769, 0.892, and 0.921 for the carrying-displacing, falls, and walking-standing activities, respectively. This information was sent in real time through the platform that has been used to analyze and process the data in an alarm system.

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Liu, Donghang, Chensi Wu, Lulin Yang, Xiaoying Zhao, and Qifeng Sun. "The Development of Privacy Protection Standards for Smart Home." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2022 (July 22, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/9641143.

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With the rapid development of network technology, society has entered the Internet of Things (IoT) era. Enriching IoT devices enable smart home privacy information to be easily obtained through data mining. Smart home privacy protection (SHPP) has a farreaching impact on the development of all aspects of society. Industrial and academic circles pay great attention to the privacy protection of the smart home, and the ability to protect the privacy needs to be improved. SHPP standards are one way to evaluate privacy protection capabilities at this stage. Based on our research on privacy protection standards, this paper summarizes the development of privacy protection standards for the first time. It divides them into three phases: creation, exploration, and expansion. According to the characteristics of the privacy data rotation, the SHPP standard system is proposed, including basic commonality, critical technology, auxiliary management, test and certification, and device application. Finally, we focus on the opportunity and challenges of smart home privacy security standards brought by the current big data and prospect the trend of privacy protection technologies and standard study. They provide a connection for subsequent standard investigations.

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Amiri-Zarandi, Mohammad, Rozita A. Dara, Emily Duncan, and Evan D. G. Fraser. "Big Data Privacy in Smart Farming: A Review." Sustainability 14, no. 15 (July 25, 2022): 9120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14159120.

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Smart farming aims to improve farming using modern technologies and smart devices. Smart devices help farmers to collect and analyze data regarding different aspects of their business. These data are utilized by various stakeholders, including farmers, technology providers, supply chain investigators, and agricultural service providers. These data sources can be considered big data due to their volume, velocity, and variety. The wide use of data collection and communication technologies has increased concerns about the privacy of farmers and their data. Although some previous studies have reviewed the security aspects of smart farming, the privacy challenges and solutions are not sufficiently explored in the literature. In this paper, we present a holistic review of big data privacy in smart farming. The paper utilizes a data lifecycle schema and describes privacy concerns and requirements in smart farming in each of the phases of this data lifecycle. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive review of the existing solutions and the state-of-the-art technologies that can enhance data privacy in smart farming.

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Majrashi, Khalid. "A Model for Predicting User Intention to Use Voice Recognition Technologies at the Workplace in Saudi Arabia." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 18, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2022010107.

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The use of voice recognition technologies (VRTs) has been expanding, and these are currently used at workplaces. This study tested a model for predicting users’ intention to use VRTs at workplaces. The model extended the technology acceptance model (TAM) and considered four additional factors—perceived privacy, perceived security, perceived trust, and social norms—and four variables—age, education level, gender, and nationality. We validated the model based on responses from 300 employees working in Saudi Arabia. The results indicated a medium level of acceptance and a valid TAM in its original form. Further, perceived privacy and perceived security are significant predictors of perceived trust and perceived trust is an important predictor of attitudes and intention to use VRTs. The social norms variable was a significant predictor of intention to use and accept VRTs. The results also showed that age and education level significantly affect users’ attitudes toward VRT adoption.

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Bugeja, Joseph, Andreas Jacobsson, and Paul Davidsson. "PRASH: A Framework for Privacy Risk Analysis of Smart Homes." Sensors 21, no. 19 (September 25, 2021): 6399. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21196399.

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Smart homes promise to improve the quality of life of residents. However, they collect vasts amounts of personal and sensitive data, making privacy protection critically important. We propose a framework, called PRASH, for modeling and analyzing the privacy risks of smart homes. It is composed of three modules: a system model, a threat model, and a set of privacy metrics, which together are used for calculating the privacy risk exposure of a smart home system. By representing a smart home through a formal specification, PRASH allows for early identification of threats, better planning for risk management scenarios, and mitigation of potential impacts caused by attacks before they compromise the lives of residents. To demonstrate the capabilities of PRASH, an executable version of the smart home system configuration was generated using the proposed formal specification, which was then analyzed to find potential attack paths while also mitigating the impacts of those attacks. Thereby, we add important contributions to the body of knowledge on the mitigations of threat agents violating the privacy of users in their homes. Overall, the use of PRASH will help residents to preserve their right to privacy in the face of the emerging challenges affecting smart homes.

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Attaran, Mohsen, Sharmin Attaran, and Diane Kirkland. "The Need for Digital Workplace." International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems 15, no. 1 (January 2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeis.2019010101.

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Advances in communications, combined with lifestyle trends, point to a future workforce that is more productive and more capable than ever before. Employees are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with workplace capabilities as communications and productivity technology advances. Employees feel that their workplace is not smart enough and they are ready for a workplace that can accommodate their changing lifestyles. The past few years have seen an explosion in the use of smart workplace technologies. Interest in exploiting digital workplaces and smart offices is increasing, and deployments are gaining momentum. Yet the adoption rate is slow, and organizations are only beginning to scratch the surface in regard to the potential applications of smart workplace technologies. Implemented properly, the business benefits of digital workplaces can be substantial. This article explores the changing dimensions of the workplace. It highlights the importance of smart workplace technologies, identifies determinants of implementation success, and covers some of the potential benefits. Finally, this study reviews the successful implementation of smart workplace technologies in a small service industry.

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Modaresnezhad, Minoo, and Hamid Nemati. "Participatory Sensing or Sensing of Participation." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 16, no. 3 (July 2020): 124–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2020070108.

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Smart devices have become a basic necessity in this technically advanced era. Many smart device applications, when installed, collect personal data and track users' online behavior for marketing or other purposes. This study aims to explore whether users are aware of related privacy issues and whether their knowledge influences the usage of their apps. Cognate-based views of privacy indicate that privacy concern is dynamic and varies depending on an individual's characteristics and the context. Adopting this view creates the attempt to understand the effect of privacy awareness on user's behavior, considering the moderating effects of individual characteristics and application categories. The study was conducted by surveying smart devices' users and analyzing their responses to the privacy awareness treatment across eight groups of applications. Results indicate that privacy awareness impacts smart device user preferences for app usage. This influence varies depending on individual user characteristics and different application categories.

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Courtney, K. L. "Privacy and Senior Willingness to Adopt Smart Home Information Technology in Residential Care Facilities." Methods of Information in Medicine 47, no. 01 (2008): 76–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/me9104.

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Summary Objectives: With large predicted increases of the older adult (65 years and older) population, researchers have been exploring the use of smart home information technologies (IT) in residential care (RC) facilities to enhance resident quality of life and safety. Older adults’ perceptions of privacy can inhibit their acceptance and subsequent adoption of smart home IT. Methods: This qualitative study, guided by principles of grounded theory research, investigated the relationship between privacy, living environment and willingness of older adults living in residential care facilities to adopt smart home IT through focus groups and individual interviews. Results: The findings from this study indicate that privacy can be a barrier for older adults’ adoption of smart home IT; however their own perception of their need for the technology may override their privacy concerns. Privacy concerns, as a barrier to technology adoption, can be influenced by both individual-level and community-level factors. Conclusions: Further exploration of the factors influencing older adults’ perceptions of smart home IT need is necessary.

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Alshehri, Ahmed, Joseph Spielman, Amiya Prasad, and Chuan Yue. "Exploring the Privacy Concerns of Bystanders in Smart Homes from the Perspectives of Both Owners and Bystanders." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2022, no. 3 (July 2022): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.56553/popets-2022-0064.

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Smart home IoT devices collect data not only from owners of the devices, but also from bystanders in a smart home (e.g., visiting family members, friends, or domestic workers). Existing research mainly considered the privacy concerns of bystanders from their own perspectives. In this paper, we design and conduct a survey study to more comprehensively explore the privacy concerns of bystanders from the perspectives of both owners and bystanders. For owners, we investigate their understanding of their own data practices, their views on bystanders’ privacy, and their willingness to negotiate data practices with bystanders. For bystanders, we investigate their privacy concerns, their expectations of disclosures by owners, and their willingness to share their data with owners. We recruited 200 owners and 100 bystanders. We found that most owners of smart homes recognize the privacy rights of bystanders, do not fully understand their own data practices, and are willing to address the privacy concerns of trusted bystanders. We also found that most bystanders have concerns about their privacy in other people’s smart homes, do not expect owners to disclose data practices, and are willing to share data about them with owners if they consent. Reaching a temporary agreement about data practices between owners and bystanders might require some negotiation. So, we also explore the willingness of owners and bystanders on negotiating data collection, storage, and sharing in smart homes. We found that many owners and bystanders have different preferences regarding negotiating data practices. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations for enhancing the privacy protection in smart homes.

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Mensch, Scott E., and LeAnn Wilkie. "Smart Phone Security Practices." International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning 9, no. 3 (July 2019): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcbpl.2019070101.

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Hand-held cell phone technology has been around for quite some time, however when Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, the widespread adoption of smartphones took off. Smartphones allow users to communicate via talk, text and video; access personal and work e-mail and the Internet; run applications; make purchases; manage bank accounts; take pictures - and for many of us are an integral part of our everyday (The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2018). Smartphones are “essentially tiny computers, we reach for these devices when we first wake up, bring them with us into the car, and often keep them with us during our most private moments (The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2018). Many users rarely turn off their smart phones.

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Chhetri, Chola, and Vivian Motti. "“I mute my echo when I talk politics”: Connecting Smart Home Device Users’ Concerns to Privacy Harms Taxonomy." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 66, no. 1 (September 2022): 2083–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661114.

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With the proliferation of Internet of Things devices, smart home devices are expected to increase in use. However, experts have raised privacy concerns regarding these devices. As the body of literature on understanding privacy concerns continues to emerge, we realize the need for a privacy concerns taxonomy to standardize and facilitate common understanding of privacy concerns. To address this gap, we conducted 25 interviews of smart home device users and analyzed their privacy concerns qualitatively. This paper contributes analysis of user privacy concerns from the angle of privacy taxonomy theory. It examines whether privacy concerns could be characterized by Solove’s taxonomy of privacy, which is a well-recognized privacy taxonomy for informational privacy. We further discuss results and their implications.

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Karunarathne, Sivanarayani M., Neetesh Saxena, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Security and Privacy in IoT Smart Healthcare." IEEE Internet Computing 25, no. 4 (July 1, 2021): 37–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mic.2021.3051675.

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Tsai, Sang-Bing, Dharma P. Agrawal, and Yong Deng. "Security and privacy of smart-X systems." Enterprise Information Systems 16, no. 3 (February 27, 2022): 403–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2021.1923066.

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Goyal, Akshat, and Mugdha S. Kulkarni. "Assessment of Smart Home: Security and Privacy." Revista Gestão Inovação e Tecnologias 11, no. 4 (August 24, 2021): 4913–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47059/revistageintec.v11i4.2513.

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Home automation is now extremely common in Internet of things services and devices with a range of assurances to improve health, lifestyle, and customer wellbeing. In terms of its success and apparent utility for humans, intelligent homes possess various safety concerns resulting from the diversified, vast-range, and nuanced nature of IoT. Previous studies have talked about security and privacy issues. However, we observe that they have not addressed the risk assessment of each smart home component and corresponding security objective along with additional factors that affect a smart home security posture. In this study, we have proposed a framework defining a standard level of security and then analyzing each component concerning it. There are so many vulnerabilities, but all cannot be assessed due to the heterogeneity of devices and their connection in a small network. IoT can support a wide range of technologies and programs in various domains, including smart cities and smart houses. For monitoring, data exchange, and other operations in the given service, IoT smart objects communicate with other elements such as proxies, mobile devices, and data collectors. While such components help solve various social issues and provide consumers with modern advanced services, their restricted computing capacities render them vulnerable to well-known protection and privacy risks.

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Beugin, Yohan, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Patrick McDaniel. "Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2022, no. 2 (March 3, 2022): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/popets-2022-0034.

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Abstract Millions of consumers depend on smart camera systems to remotely monitor their homes and businesses. However, the architecture and design of popular commercial systems require users to relinquish control of their data to untrusted third parties, such as service providers (e.g., the cloud). Third parties therefore can (and in some instances have) access the video footage without the users’ knowledge or consent—violating the core tenet of user privacy. In this paper, we present CaCTUs, a privacy-preserving smart Camera system Controlled Totally by Users. CaCTUs returns control to the user; the root of trust begins with the user and is maintained through a series of cryptographic protocols, designed to support popular features, such as sharing, deleting, and viewing videos live. We show that the system can support live streaming with a latency of 2 s at a frame rate of 10 fps and a resolution of 480 p. In so doing, we demonstrate that it is feasible to implement a performant smart-camera system that leverages the convenience of a cloud-based model while retaining the ability to control access to (private) data.

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Zheng, Serena, Noah Apthorpe, Marshini Chetty, and Nick Feamster. "User Perceptions of Smart Home IoT Privacy." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2, CSCW (November 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3274469.

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Khatoun, Rida, and Sherali Zeadally. "Cybersecurity and Privacy Solutions in Smart Cities." IEEE Communications Magazine 55, no. 3 (March 2017): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2017.1600297cm.

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Bojor, Laviniu. "Security and Privacy in Smart Devices Era." International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION 23, no. 1 (June 20, 2017): 44–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2017-0007.

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AbstractToday, more than ever, our society has become obsessed with technology and people surround themselves with smart devices designed to improve their lifestyle. Communications have benefited of this rise of the gadgets the most, and reality shows that most adults in the urban environment own a smartphone with the help of which they can connect to the Internet. We would be tempted to state that the World Wide Web will change in the future into Human World Wide Web, but connecting to the Internet does not stop here. Vehicles, TV sets and other electronic devices or appliances have already started to be connected to the Internet, which makes it easier to believe that, in the future, we will live in a society where most devices around us will be interconnected to a global or even spatial network. This concept, which the academic world embraced as the Internet of Things, should be understood and accepted by society not only from the perspective of the deprivation of privacy it generates, but especially from the perspective of the insecurity, a possible result of this dependence on software and programs that can be remotely accessed and controlled.

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Serpanos, D. N., and A. Papalambrou. "Security and Privacy in Distributed Smart Cameras." Proceedings of the IEEE 96, no. 10 (October 2008): 1678–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2008.928763.

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