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Privacy by Design: Bringing User Awareness to Privacy Risks in Internet of Things

Usama Younus, Rie Kamikubo

TL;DR

This paper participated in a co-design workshop for the privacy of a content creation platform and used the findings to deploy a survey-based mechanism to tackle some key concern areas for user groups and formulate design principles for privacy that promote transparent, user-centered, and awareness-provoking privacy design.

Abstract

This paper aims to cover and summarize the field of IoT and related privacy concerns through the lens of privacy by design. With the ever-increasing incorporation of technology within our daily lives and an ever-growing active research into smart devices and technologies, privacy concerns are inevitable. We intend to briefly cover the broad topic of privacy in the IoT space, the inherent challenges and risks in such systems, and a few recent techniques that intend to resolve these issues on the subdomain level and a system scale level. We then proceed to approach this situation through design thinking and privacy-by-design, given that most of the prior efforts are based on resolving privacy concerns on technical grounds with system-level design. We participated in a co-design workshop for the privacy of a content creation platform and used those findings to deploy a survey-based mechanism to tackle some key concern areas for user groups and formulate design principles for privacy that promote transparent, user-centered, and awareness-provoking privacy design.

Privacy by Design: Bringing User Awareness to Privacy Risks in Internet of Things

TL;DR

This paper participated in a co-design workshop for the privacy of a content creation platform and used the findings to deploy a survey-based mechanism to tackle some key concern areas for user groups and formulate design principles for privacy that promote transparent, user-centered, and awareness-provoking privacy design.

Abstract

This paper aims to cover and summarize the field of IoT and related privacy concerns through the lens of privacy by design. With the ever-increasing incorporation of technology within our daily lives and an ever-growing active research into smart devices and technologies, privacy concerns are inevitable. We intend to briefly cover the broad topic of privacy in the IoT space, the inherent challenges and risks in such systems, and a few recent techniques that intend to resolve these issues on the subdomain level and a system scale level. We then proceed to approach this situation through design thinking and privacy-by-design, given that most of the prior efforts are based on resolving privacy concerns on technical grounds with system-level design. We participated in a co-design workshop for the privacy of a content creation platform and used those findings to deploy a survey-based mechanism to tackle some key concern areas for user groups and formulate design principles for privacy that promote transparent, user-centered, and awareness-provoking privacy design.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 38 sections, 3 figures, 1 table.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Internet of Things 101
  3. Privacy Definition & IoT Reference Model
  4. Threats, Types of Attacks
  5. Prior Privacy Efforts
  6. Systems' Approach
  7. Data Collection
  8. Data Storage & Handling
  9. Secure Communication
  10. System Scale Architectures
  11. Design Approach
  12. Remaining Privacy Concerns
  13. Method
  14. Formative Study
  15. Survey Study
  16. ...and 23 more sections

Figures (3)

  • Figure 1: IoT Constitution: Sensing, analyzing and communicating involving smart things, subject to data collection who is also a recipient of service, and infrastructure connecting smart things and service. ziegeldorf2014privacy
  • Figure 2: Privacy Co-Design Workshop. Acknowledgement: Alina Striner, Distributed and Interactive Systems Group
  • Figure 3: Example survey questions using Google Form designed in different formats: a)'check all that apply' with Other for open-ended comment option, b) 'dichotomous' yes or no according to a given scenario of user groups, c)'Likert scale' from 1 to 5, with 1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree to a given statement.