privacy-by-design

Special Issue on Privacy and Trust

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We are guest editing a Special Issue on Privacy and Trust in IoT-Based Smart Homes and Buildings, and would like to personally invite you to contribute a paper.

For this Special Issue we are looking for high-quality original contributions including, but not limited to, the topical areas listed below:

  • Novel architectures, concepts, and models for trustworthy smart homes and smart buildings;
  • Privacy-enhancing and transparency-enhancing technologies for smart homes and smart buildings;
  • Privacy-by-design mechanisms for smart homes and buildings;
  • Vulnerability discovery and analysis for smart homes and buildings;
  • Threat modeling and risk assessment for smart homes and buildings;
  • Attack and attacker simulation for smart homes and buildings;
  • Trust and identity management for smart homes and buildings;
  • Access control models for smart homes and buildings;
  • Human factors in privacy and security of smart homes and buildings.

Please spread the word!

More info: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/PT_SM

My Presentation at FHNW

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This week, between August 19-23 2019, I was in Switzerland attending the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Summer School at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Brugg/Windisch.  Attending this school is of great benefit to strengthen your network of professional and academic contacts, especially for those working on Information Privacy.  Topics covered in the jam-packed schedule included:  the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, sensors and biometrics, privacy by design (PbD), identity management, users and usability, and more.

On Tuesday 20, I presented my paper therein titled: “On the Design of a Privacy-Preserving Data Lifecycle for Smart Living Spaces” in the “Privacy by Design” track. I had a 30 mins presentation slot and following that a 10 mins critical review from two pre-assigned paper discussants including questions from the attendees. I have to say that I have received very positive and constructive feedback. Hereunder, is a photo of myself presenting some of the related work in PbD, threat analysis, and threat modeling.

Explaining the related research work before positioning my contribution.

Overall, I can say that there were some fantastic keynotes and excellent presentations from diverse Phd students.  Especially, I liked the keynote “Privacy as Innovation opportunity” by Marc van Lieshout from Radboud University.  In particular, I enjoyed his mentioning of Alan Westin’s privacy dimensions: reserve, intimacy, anonymity, and solitude; and how these are to different extents being hampered by privacy-evasive technologies, affecting the physical, individual, collective, and virtual dimensions of human beings. At the same time, I like his take on the increasing market of privacy, in particular with privacy service features such as activity monitoring, assessment manager, data mapping, etc.

My advice, if you are a doctoral student or interested in learning information privacy from a computer science or informatics standpoint, then I highly recommend you to attend the IFIP school at some point. Typically, there are ECTS credits for this course, (possibly 1.5 HP – 3 HP) if you attend and/or present your paper. In the meantime, check out my presentation (redacted version). The full version will be uploaded after the paper gets published.