Article in Proceedings INPROC-2018-02

BibliographyStach, Christoph: Big Brother is Smart Watching You: Privacy Concerns about Health and Fitness Applications.
In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2018).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 1-11, english.
SciTePress, January 2018.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationINSTICC
CR-SchemaK.4.1 (Computers and Society Public Policy Issues)
D.4.6 (Operating Systems Security and Protection)
K.8 (Personal Computing)
KeywordsSmartbands; Health and Fitness Applications; Privacy Concerns; Privacy Management Platform
Abstract

Health and fitness applications for mobile devices are becoming more and more popular. Due to novel wearable metering devices, the so-called Smartbands, these applications are able to capture both health data (e.g., the heart rate) as well as personal information (e.g., location data) and create a quantified self for their users. However, many of these applications violate the user's privacy and misuse the collected data. It becomes apparent that this threat is inherent in the privacy systems implemented in mobile platforms. Therefore, we apply the Privacy Policy Model (PPM) a fine-grained and modular expandable permission model to deals with this problem. We implement our adapted model in a prototype based on the Privacy Management Platform (PMP). Subsequently, we evaluate our model with the help the prototype and demonstrate its applicability for any application using Smartbands for its data acquisition.

ContactSenden Sie eine E-Mail an Christoph.Stach@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)PATRON
Entry dateNovember 2, 2017
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