Five Common Misconceptions About Privacy-Preserving Internet of Things
Mohammad Abu Alsheikh

TL;DR
This paper clarifies five common misconceptions about privacy-preserving IoT, emphasizing that privacy should enhance trust and innovation, not hinder it, and that security alone does not ensure privacy.
Contribution
It refutes five misconceptions about privacy-preserving IoT through real-world experiments and surveys, providing practical insights for researchers and practitioners.
Findings
Data privacy can boost customer trust and retention.
Privacy-preserving IoT is essential from the design stage, not just regulation.
Decentralization does not guarantee complete privacy.
Abstract
Billions of devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) collect sensitive data about people, creating data privacy risks and breach vulnerabilities. Accordingly, data privacy preservation is vital for sustaining the proliferation of IoT services. In particular, privacy-preserving IoT connects devices embedded with sensors and maintains the data privacy of people. However, common misconceptions exist among IoT researchers, service providers, and users about privacy-preserving IoT. This article refutes five common misconceptions about privacy-preserving IoT concerning data sensing and innovation, regulations, and privacy safeguards. For example, IoT users have a common misconception that no data collection is permitted in data privacy regulations. On the other hand, IoT service providers often think data privacy impedes IoT sensing and innovation. Addressing these misconceptions is…
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