UK study of 18 domestic workers reveals AI smart home devices create surveillance risks in employers' homes and privacy challenges in their own; agencies identified as institutional threats exploiting opaque monitoring, data logs, and cross-household flows.

"These cameras are just like the Eye of Sauron": A Sociotechnical Threat Model for AI-Driven Smart Home Devices as Perceived by UK-Based Domestic Workers

View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The growing adoption of AI-driven smart home devices has introduced new privacy risks for domestic workers (DWs), who are frequently monitored in employers' homes while also using smart devices in their own households. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 UK-based DWs and performed a human-centered threat modeling analysis of their experiences through the lens of Communication Privacy Management (CPM). Our findings extend existing threat models be...