Privacy & Usability of IPTV Recommender Systems

IPTV is capable of providing recommendations for upcoming TV programs based on consumer feedback. With the increasing popularity and performance of recommender systems, risks of user privacy breach emerge. Although several works about privacy-preserving designs of recommender systems exist in the literature, a detailed analysis of the current state-of-the-art regarding privacy as well as an investigation of the usability aspects of such systems, so far, have not received consideration. In this paper, we survey current approaches for recommender systems by studying their privacy and usability properties in the context of IPTV