Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis

Vera Schmitt; James Nicholson; Sebastian Möller

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_93

Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis

Vera Schmitt^*, James Nicholson, Sebastian Möller

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Abstract

Nowadays, smartphones are equipped with various sensors collecting a huge amount of sensitive personal information about their users. However, for smartphone users, it remains hidden, and sensit- ive information is accessed by used applications and data requestors. Moreover, governmental institutions have no means to verify if applic- ations requesting sensitive information are compliant with the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR), as it is infeasible to check the tech- nical details and data requested by applications that are on the market. Thus, this research aims to shed light on the compliance analysis of applications with the GDPR. Therefore, a multidimensional analysis is applied to analyzing the permission requests of applications. The use case of security camera applications was chosen, as they access highly sensit- ive personal information. Our results confirm that these apps suffer from serious privacy issues ranging from regulatory compliance issues to in- appropriate design and development strategies that can severely impact users’ privacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2023 Computing Conference, Volume 1
Editors	Kohei Arai
Place of Publication	Springer, Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1375-1393
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031377174
ISBN (Print)	9783031377167
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_93
Publication status	Published - 11 Sept 2023
Event	Computing Conference 2023 - Clayton Hotel Chiswick, London, United Kingdom Duration: 22 Jun 2023 → 23 Jun 2023 https://saiconference.com/Computing

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Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Publisher	Springer
Volume	739
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

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Conference	Computing Conference 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	22/06/23 → 23/06/23
Internet address	https://saiconference.com/Computing

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privacy protection
privacy policy analysis
GDPR

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Schmitt, V, Nicholson, J & Möller, S 2023, Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis. in K Arai (ed.), Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2023 Computing Conference, Volume 1. 1st edn, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 739, Springer, Springer, Cham, pp. 1375-1393, Computing Conference 2023, London, United Kingdom, 22/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_93

Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis. / Schmitt, Vera; Nicholson, James; Möller, Sebastian.
Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2023 Computing Conference, Volume 1. ed. / Kohei Arai. 1st. ed. Springer, Cham: Springer, 2023. p. 1375-1393 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 739).

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