Privacy Issues in Social Web of Things

Abstract

Web of Things (WoT) allows users to create and share contents through a network. However, the social Web of things (SWoT) is a new concept merging the WoT and social capabilities of the modern internet. These devices are interconnected physical, social, real-time, semantic for better communication by the web. SWoT describes approaches, software architectural styles and programming designs that permit real-world objects to be part of the world communication; however, information privacy is mistreated since information is accessed in uncertainty ways by non-authoritative individuals. In this paper, we review complex privacy issues in SWoT with suggesting state of the art solutions to overcome avoidable scenarios basing on the current surveys, models, and architectures, enlightenment on the drawback’s technology users. We justify that during devices and people interaction to the SWoT through credential assessment for access, content sharing throughout communication and controlling physical things will be the main privacy issues.