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A Privacy-Orientated Distributed Data Storage Model for Smart Homes

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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (HCII 2023)

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With the wide adoption of smart home devices, users are concerned with what sensitive data these devices may be collecting and what that data may be used for. This paper proposes a way to reduce the level of dis-trust between the end-users and the companies that offer smart home hard-ware and/or personalised software services by allowing end-users to retain an optimal degree of control over their personal data (such as voice and video recordings) which is typically collected by the service provider and stored on the service provider’s cloud platform.

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    Khutso Lebea & Wai Sze Leung

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Lebea, K., Leung, W.S. (2023). A Privacy-Orientated Distributed Data Storage Model for Smart Homes. In: Moallem, A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35822-7_13

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