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Monday, June 06, 2022

Guaranteed Smart Home Privacy?

 Well tested in open contexts?

Peekaboo! A System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Daniel Tkacik, May 31, 2022

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute have developed a privacy-sensitive architecture for smart home applications. Peekaboo accepts requests from developers to share certain pieces of data, and guarantees only the minimum data needed to satisfy the requests is exchanged. The architecture has developers first declare all the data they intend to gather and under what conditions, where that data is being sent, and its granularity; an in-home hub then arbitrates between all devices in the home and the outside Internet. CyLab's HaoJian Jin said, "The Peekaboo protocol will allow users to manage privacy preferences for all of their devices in a centralized manner through the hub. Imagine not just a privacy nutrition label for an individual device, but a privacy nutrition label for an entire home."  ... '

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