A study on users' privacy perception with smart devices

TL;DR

This paper investigates users' perceptions of privacy with smart devices, highlighting the need for better user awareness and involvement in privacy protection measures.

Contribution

It introduces an awareness-raising application and assesses user responses to improve understanding of privacy risks.

Findings

Users lack sufficient awareness of privacy risks.

Enhanced information can improve user privacy perceptions.

Current solutions like GDPR are not enough without user involvement.

Abstract

Nowadays, privacy has become a very serious issue with smart and mobile platforms. Users tend to allow intrusive apps access much sensible information without really knowing the potential threats. To solve this issue several solutions (e.g. GDPR) have been provided. Our claim is that the users currently are not sufficiently involved in this process for being able to use such solutions. To do this we developed an application that provides a form of awareness to the users and we asked them to reply a set of questions. Our conclusions are that users must be better informed of the risks and value of their personal information.