Privacy Principles in Design of Smart Homes Systems in Elderly Care

Privacy is considered as a main concern in developing and implementing smart home systems for elderly care SHSEC. Privacy-by-Design PbD can help to ensure privacy in such systems and can support the designers in taking the protection of the privacy into account during the development of such systems. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of the PbD principles PbDPs suggested by Cavoukian et al. [1] in the context of SHSEC. This research is conducted as a qualitative case study, where we highlight limitations of existing PbDPs in this context. Based on our findings, we suggest seven additional PbDPs which complement the existing PbDPs and adjust them in the context of SHSEC.

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