Informed Consent Management For Preserving Privacy In IoT-oriented Smart Buildings

Smart Buildings (SBs) employ the latest IoT technologies to automate building operations and services. These smart devices can capture and share sensitive and private data about occupants, exposing them to various privacy threats. Nevertheless, the convenience offered by these devices influences users' privacy-related behaviours, and they rarely make active efforts to protect their personal information. To address this tension between data privacy, consent and convenience, this thesis proposes a novel privacy-preserving informed consent management solution. It increases user awareness of data collection and usage, provides fine-grained visibility into privacy conformance and compliance by these devices, and enables informed privacy decision-making.