What type of data smart home devices collect? This is exactly what I talked about last week in Seattle (USA) at the Services Conference Federation (SCF 2018). Understanding the data smart home systems collect is useful to assess what is at stake if a device is compromised and as a precursor for conducting privacy analysis.

By analysing the privacy policies of different smart home and IoT device manufacturers we observed that all investigated devices collect instances of personal data. This in the worst case can include biometric data. Such data is used for instance in smart TVs for authentication purposes and sometimes to support advanced interaction features.

However, there are many other instances of non-personal data which when aggregated can truly paint a detailed coarse-grained model of an individual’s lifestyle preferences, habits, and history.

Read more: https://www.springerprofessional.de/an-empirical-analysis-of-smart-connected-home-data/15852434