Security News > 2020 > June > Forget biz insider threats for a moment – let's talk about partners turning rogue and installing spyware on phones

In a paper recently published through the Journal of Cybersecurity, Cornell University assistant professor Karen Levy and security veteran Bruce Schneier argue that intimate relationships open the door to a set of privacy and security risks that haven't been anticipated or adequately addressed by the public, the technical community, and policymakers.

"We describe privacy threats that arise in our intimate relationships: families, romances, friendships," said Levy.

"Intimate privacy threats arise in abusive contexts, but they can also arise in less nefarious situations, or as a component of genuine care," she said.

"There are no bright-line rules for determining when duties of care and protection override privacy interests in intimate relationships, nor for whether intimate monitoring crosses a line of appropriateness."

"Device makers should absolutely think about intimate privacy threats in the same way they model other kinds of privacy and security threats," she said.

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