User-Centered Privacy to Improve User Quantification using Smartphone Sensing
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Abstract
Mobile sensing technologies enable adaptive and context-aware applications. At the same time, they raise a range of privacy concerns. Thus, to reduce privacy concerns today apps are restricted from accessing certain information hindering to deliver full personalization and novel adaptive use cases. I investigate this issue by shedding light on the privacy concerns that arise from state-of-the-art mobile sensing data, studying the users’ perspective on mobile smartphone privacy, and proposing concepts that protect the users’ privacy while keeping the resulting data usable. I found that there is a lack of user-centered privacy design and that control features play a key role to give the users more agency. My results motivate the proliferation of control-enhancing privacy features in mobile applications. I show that the benefits of trust and system adoption surpass any impairments that control features might bring to the data.
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