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VR Testbed-based Blood Pressure Privacy Leakage Analysis

  • Zhengkun Ye
  • , Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad
  • , Yan Wang
  • , Cong Shi
  • , Yingying Chen
  • , Nitesh Saxena

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Abstract

Blood pressure (BP) is one of the most essential biomarkers for human health, widely used to diagnose cardiovascular diseases [3] and assess mental states [2, 5]. It is considered Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA, and access to it typically requires explicit user consent. In this work, we uncover a novel privacy breach in the metaverse usage: a user’s private BP information can be covertly and continuously surveilled using the unrestricted in-built motion sensors present in commodity VR headsets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSEC 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9798400722387
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 3 2025
Event10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2025 - Arlington, United States
Duration: Dec 3 2025Dec 6 2025

Publication series

NameSEC 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Conference

Conference10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2025
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington
Period12/3/2512/6/25

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

Keywords

  • Blood Pressure
  • Motion Sensor
  • Privacy Leakage
  • Virtual Reality

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