Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices

Daniel Joy; Olivera Kotevska; Eyhab Al-Masri

doi:10.1109/ECICE55674.2022.10042926

Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices

Daniel Joy, Olivera Kotevska, Eyhab Al-Masri

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Abstract

Although the number of smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices has grown in recent years, the public's perception of how effectively these devices secure IoT data has been questioned. Many IoT users do not have a good level of confidence in the security or privacy procedures implemented within IoT smart devices for protecting personal IoT data. Moreover, determining the level of confidence end users have in their smart devices is becoming a major challenge. In this paper, we present a study that focuses on identifying privacy concerns IoT end users have when using IoT smart devices. We investigated multiple smart devices and conducted a survey to identify users' privacy concerns. Furthermore, we identify five IoT privacy-preserving (IoTPP) control policies that we define and employ in comparing the privacy measures implemented by various popular smart devices. Results from our study show that the over 86% of participants are very or extremely concerned about the security and privacy of their personal data when using smart IoT devices such as Google Nest Hub or Amazon Alexa. In addition, our study shows that a significant number of IoT users may not be aware that their personal data is collected, stored or shared by IoT devices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022
Editors	Teen-Hang Meen
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	70-76
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665482080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECICE55674.2022.10042926
State	Published - 2022
Event	4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering, ECICE 2022 - Yunlin, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Oct 28 2022 → Oct 30 2022

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Name	Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022

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Conference	4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering, ECICE 2022
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Yunlin
Period	10/28/22 → 10/30/22

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This manuscript has been co-authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Keywords

IoT devices
data protection
differential privacy
intelligent virtual assistants
internet of things
personal data
privacy
security
smart devices

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Joy, D., Kotevska, O., & Al-Masri, E. (2022). Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices. In T.-H. Meen (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022 (pp. 70-76). (Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECICE55674.2022.10042926

Joy, Daniel ; Kotevska, Olivera ; Al-Masri, Eyhab. / Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022. editor / Teen-Hang Meen. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. pp. 70-76 (Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022).

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Joy, D, Kotevska, O & Al-Masri, E 2022, Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices. in T-H Meen (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 70-76, 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering, ECICE 2022, Yunlin, Taiwan, Province of China, 10/28/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECICE55674.2022.10042926

Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices. / Joy, Daniel; Kotevska, Olivera; Al-Masri, Eyhab.
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022. ed. / Teen-Hang Meen. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 70-76 (Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022).

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Joy D, Kotevska O, Al-Masri E. Investigating Users' Privacy Concerns of Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Devices. In Meen TH, editor, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 70-76. (Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering 2022, ECICE 2022). doi: 10.1109/ECICE55674.2022.10042926

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