Take Your Security and Privacy Into Your Own Hands! Why Security and Privacy Assistants Should be Tangible

Abstract

In the era of ubiquitous computing, users security and privacy is at risk at almost all times. Security and privacy assistants support their users in becoming aware of these risks and taking the appropriate measures to protect their data. However, they often suffer from being too complex, not intuitive and non-engaging. Hence, in order to truly enable less tech-savvy or inexperienced persons to use security and privacy assistants, we argue that such mechanisms must become tangible in the future.