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Enhanced Privacy in Smart Workplaces: Employees’ Preferences for Transparency Indicators and Control Interactions in the Case of Data Collection with Smart Watches

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ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC 2022)

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ((IFIPAICT,volume 648))

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Employees are increasingly wearing smart watches for their work duties. While these devices can support employees in their tasks, they can also collect sensitive information like health or location data about them, thus endangering their privacy. Even when collective agreements, allowing employers to collect such data have been signed, we argue that employees should be aware of the data collection and be able to control it. Therefore, we propose different indicators that aim at enhancing employees’ awareness about the current data collection as well as interactions to allow them to stop and resume it according to their preferences. To compare them, we have conducted an online questionnaire-based study with 1,033 participants. The results indicate that our participants wish to have such indicators to raise their awareness and further wish to control the data collection.

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    Alexander Richter, Patrick Kühtreiber & Delphine Reinhardt

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Richter, A., Kühtreiber, P., Reinhardt, D. (2022). Enhanced Privacy in Smart Workplaces: Employees’ Preferences for Transparency Indicators and Control Interactions in the Case of Data Collection with Smart Watches. In: Meng, W., Fischer-Hübner, S., Jensen, C.D. (eds) ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection. SEC 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 648. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06975-8_3

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