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Exploring Privacy Concerns about Personal Sensing

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Jeffrey HightowerAuthors Info & Claims

Pervasive '09: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing

Pages 176 - 183

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01516-8_13

Published: 11 May 2009 Publication History

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More and more personal devices such as mobile phones and multimedia players use embedded sensing. This means that people are wearing and carrying devices capable of sensing details about them such as their activity, location, and environment. In this paper, we explore privacy concerns about such personal sensing through interviews with 24 participants who took part in a three month study that used personal sensing to detect their physical activities. Our results show that concerns often depended on what was being recorded, the context in which participants worked and lived and thus would be sensed, and the value they perceived would be provided. We suggest ways in which personal sensing can be made more privacy-sensitive to address these concerns.

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Pervasive '09: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing

May 2009

405 pages

ISBN:9783642015151

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Hideyuki Tokuda
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa City, Japan 252-8520
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Michael Beigl
Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 38106
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Adrian Friday
Computing Department, InfoLab 2, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK LA1 4WA
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A. J. Brush
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, USA 98052-6399
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Yoshito Tobe
Department of Information Systems and Multimedia Design, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan 101---8457

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