Emerging Privacy Issues and Solutions in Cyber-Enabled Sharing Services
Fast development of sharing services becomes a crucial part of the process in constructing a cyber-enabled world, as sharing services reinvent how people exchange and obtain goods or services. However, privacy leakage or disclosure is a key concern which may hinder the development of sharing services. While significant efforts have been undertaken to address various privacy issues in recent years, there is a surprising lack of a review for privacy concerns in the cyber-enabled sharing world. To bridge the gap, in this study, we survey and evaluate existing and emerging privacy issues relating to sharing services from various perspectives. Differing from existing similar works on surveying sharing practices in various fields, our work comprehensively covers six directions of sharing services in the cyber-enabled world and selects solutions mostly from the recent five years. Finally, we conclude the issues and solutions from three perspectives, namely, the user, platform and service provider perspectives.
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