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Buddy's Wearable Is Not Your Buddy: Privacy Implications of Pet Wearables

Dirk Van Der Linden, Anna Zamansky, Irit Hadar, Barnaby Craggs, Awais Rashid

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    Abstract

    As an increasingly prevalent class of consumer device, pet wearables hold more privacy implications than might be initially apparent. Through analysis of privacy policies, we show that more data are captured about owners than pets-and which data are captured remains vague.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number8713279
    Pages (from-to)28-39
    Number of pages12
    JournalIEEE Security and Privacy
    Volume17
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 May 2019

    Research Groups and Themes

    • Cyber Security

    Keywords

    • wearable computing
    • technology social factors
    • privacy
    • data privacy
    • animals
    • pets

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