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While many of the emerging IoT and wearable technologies are giving rise to a spectrum of new applications and innovative uses, as well as promising and attractive benefits, they also pose privacy concerns that are largely unexplored. In fact, a new research area concerning the security and privacy of these technologies has recently emerged. Additionally, the need for the majority of wearable devices and a good number of IoT systems to interact and share data with an access point (i.e. a smart watch to smartphone, medical monitoring device to a home server, smart bulb to an ambient home assistant) along with other sensors and peripherals would certainly create a new class of privacy and security hazards.

Some IoT and wearable devices deploy various sensors to collect a wide spectrum of biological, environmental, behavioral, and social information from and for their users. Clearly, the more these devices are incorporated into our daily lives, the greater the amount of sensitive information will be transported, stored, and processed by these devices, which also elevate privacy concerns.

Moreover, integrated voice recognition or monitoring features are continuously listening to conversations or video record activities and selectively transmit such potentially sensitive data to a cloud service for processing, which sometimes involves a third party. Handling and interacting with such information unveil legal and regulatory challenges facing data protection and privacy laws.

One specific privacy concern associated with the emerging smart glasses is that they allow users to simultaneously record and share images and videos of people and their activities in their range of vision, in real time. This problem will soon be intensified when such devices are integrated with facial recognition programs which will allow users to see the person's name in the field of view, personal information, and even visit their social media accounts.