An Overview of Emerging Privacy Issues in the Internet of Things

This paper presents an overview of the privacy issues that are expected to emerge as a result of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT expands digital world to include different things in our physical world. This ambitious aspiration is becoming true with the utilization of already existing technologies that enable things to be identified and to communicate with each other. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous collection and dissemination of data that characterize IoT come at the expense of data privacy. We have witnessed many privacy breaches during the last decade, more vicious breaches will find its way to the huge amounts of qualitative data that are collected in IoT with more expected catastrophic consequences to individuals and organizations. Evaluating some papers, the lessons to be learnt and some possible directions for future research were highlighted.