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The Awareness of Internet of Things (IoT) Privacy Risk: A Survey Study

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Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 2 (FTC 2022 2022)

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The last years have witnessed the rapid development and deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in societies. Along with the growth of IoT, new security and privacy issues arise and become more urgent. in this paper, we tried to study people’s awareness of this new technology and how do they deal with the risk to their privacy. In this paper, we explore the understanding and awareness of privacy in the field of IoT. We conducted a survey study for some IoT users in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The main findings of this study shows that the users of IoT devices are about 65%. In addition, the results found that the users believe that IoT devices affect their level of privacy and they think that privacy is an obsession during the use of the IoT in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, we found that about 75% of the participants are dependant on their IoT devices some or most of their time.

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  1. College of Technology, Department of Computer Technology, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC), Dammam, Saudi Arabia

    Hameed Almubark & Omar Masmali

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Almubark, H., Masmali, O. (2023). The Awareness of Internet of Things (IoT) Privacy Risk: A Survey Study. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 2. FTC 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 560. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18458-1_13

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