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Wearable devices enable users to collect health data and share them with healthcare providers for improved health service. Since health data contain privacy-sensitive information, unprotected data release system may result in privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Jiajun Zhang , Xiaohui Liang , Zhikun Zhang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi

AI-based sensing at wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for vision and perception tasks such as in autonomous driving and environmental monitoring. AI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mohamed Seif , Malcolm Egan , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Knowing who is in one's vicinity is key to managing privacy in everyday environments, but is challenging for people with visual impairments. Wearable cameras and other sensors may be able to detect such information, but how should this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Tousif Ahmed , Rakibul Hasan , Kay Connelly , David Crandall , Apu Kapadia

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Usama Younus , Rie Kamikubo

Consumers increasingly bring IoT devices into their living spaces without understanding how their data is collected, processed, and used. We present PrivacyCube, a novel tangible device designed to explore the extent to which privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Bayan Al Muhander , Omer Rana , Nalin Arachchilage , Charith Perera

Contact tracing promises to help fight the spread of Covid-19 via an early detection of possible contagion events. To this end, most existing solutions share the following architecture: smartphones continuously broadcast random beacons that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pietro Tedeschi , Spiridon Bakiras , Roberto Di Pietro

In the modern digital world, a user of a smart system remains surrounded with as well as observed by a number of tiny IoT devices round the clock almost everywhere. Unfortunately, the ability of these devices to sense and share various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Himanshu Goyal , Krishna Kodali , Sudipta Saha

Interconnecting "things" and devices that take the form of wearables, sensors, actuators, mobiles, computers, meters, or even vehicles is a critical requirement for the current era. These internetworked connections are serving the emerging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-19 A. Jurcut , T. Niculcea , P. Ranaweera , A. LeKhac

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly empowering people with an interconnected world of physical objects ranging from smart buildings to portable smart devices such as wearables. With recent advances in mobile sensing, wearables have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Sudip Vhaduri , Christian Poellabauer

Businesses planning for the post-pandemic world are looking for innovative ways to protect the health and welfare of their employees and customers. Wireless technologies can play a key role in assisting contact tracing to quickly halt a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Pai Chet Ng , Petros Spachos , Stefano Gregori , Konstantinos Plataniotis

We present Animo, a smartwatch app that enables people to share and view each other's biosignals. We designed and engineered Animo to explore new ground for smartwatch-based biosignals social computing systems: identifying opportunities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Fannie Liu , Mario Esparza , Maria Pavlovskaia , Geoff Kaufman , Laura Dabbish , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Lockdown Mode was introduced in 2022 as a hardening setting for Apple's operating systems, designed to strengthen the protection against ``some of the most sophisticated digital threats''. However, Apple never explained these threats…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Mader , Christian Eichenmüller , Gaston Pugliese , Dennis Eckhardt , Zinaida Benenson

The Internet of Things (IoT) bears unprecedented security and scalability challenges due to the magnitude of data produced and exchanged by IoT devices and platforms. Some of those challenges are currently being addressed by coupling IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Hien Thi Thu Truong , Miguel Almeida , Ghassan Karame , Claudio Soriente

Internet of things (IoT) devices, such as smart meters, smart speakers and activity monitors, have become highly popular thanks to the services they offer. However, in addition to their many benefits, they raise privacy concerns since they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

Individuals lack oversight over systems that process their data. This can lead to discrimination and hidden biases that are hard to uncover. Recent data protection legislation tries to tackle these issues, but it is inadequate. It does not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Valentin Zieglmeier , Alexander Pretschner

With wearable devices such as smartwatches on the rise in the consumer electronics market, securing these wearables is vital. However, the current security mechanisms only focus on validating the user not the device itself. Indeed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Wireless sensing technologies can now detect heartbeats using radio frequency and acoustic signals, raising significant privacy concerns. Existing privacy solutions either protect from all sensing systems indiscriminately preventing any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yixuan Gao , Tanvir Ahmed , Zekun Chang , Thijs Roumen , Rajalakshmi Nandakumar

Health and fitness wearable technology has recently advanced, making it easier for an individual to monitor their behaviours. Previously self generated data interacts with the user to motivate positive behaviour change, but issues arise…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Katrin Hänsel , Natalie Wilde , Hamed Haddadi , Akram Alomainy

This paper presents a data-centric and security-focused data fabric designed for digital health applications. With the increasing interest in digital health research, there has been a surge in the volume of Internet of Things (IoT) data…

The growth in the number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) poses major challenges in security. The integrity and trustworthiness of data and data analytics are increasingly important concerns in IoT applications. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura