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A Game of Fog and Mirrors: Privacy in the World of Internet of Things

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2021)

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Privacy challenges are a growing point of research in both political science and computer science as the pervasive nature of IoT devices turns Orwell’s dystopic state into a potential reality. This research maps out potential scenarios for IoT privacy challenges in the interdisciplinary effort to understand what it means to have privacy in world of internet-enabled sensors.

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  1. Mobile Technology Lab, Department of Information Technology, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway

    Alice F. Parker & Tor-Morten Grønli

  2. School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Younas

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  1. Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

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  2. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

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  3. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Younas

  4. Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway

    Tor-Morten Grønli

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Parker, A.F., Grønli, TM., Younas, M. (2021). A Game of Fog and Mirrors: Privacy in the World of Internet of Things. In: Bentahar, J., Awan, I., Younas, M., Grønli, TM. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12814. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83164-6_13

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