Personal Perspectives: Individual Privacy in the IOT

Johanna Virkki, Liquan Chen

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.
School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ait.2013.32003                

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IOT) is the extension of the Internet to the next level, i.e., bringing the Internet to the real physical world of things. In this research, 22 people working with different aspects of IOT development were interviewed in Finland and in China, in order to investigate their thoughts and personal opinions on the IOT and the individual privacy in the IOT. This paper presents the background of the IOT, interviews and collected answers, as well as highlights of collected free comments.

Keywords

China; Finland; Individual Privacy; Internet of Things; Interviews

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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