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Digital Privacy Companion
Given ever smarter environments, we are increasingly more exposed to devices that process (personal) data about ourselves. Since, research has shown that users tend to accept privacy policies, even if they do not completely understand them, we are interested in making users aware of the data processing activities of smart devices in an understandable way. Moreover, we want to create systems that can act on behalf of a user to ensure that their privacy concerns are considered in their current environment.
Keywords: Privacy, Digital Companion, Mixed Reality, Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Graph
Given ever smarter environments, we are more and more exposed to devices that process (personal) data about ourselves. Smart devices are no longer exclusive to high-end buildings and industrial settings, they are becoming ubiquitous in our everyday environments, such as in educational and private spaces (e.g., households). While, for some of these devices, specifically the ones we own and have installed ourselves, we might have consented to the processing of our data, we do not have that choice for devices installed in public spaces. Moreover, previous research has shown that users tend to accept privacy policies, even if they do not completely understand them, given that the perceived value of the services they want to use outweighs their data processing concerns (if any).
In this project, you will be creating a Digital Privacy Companion that looks after its users, by making them aware of the data processing activities of smart devices and by acting on their behalf to ensure that their privacy concerns are considered in the environment they are located in.
Given ever smarter environments, we are more and more exposed to devices that process (personal) data about ourselves. Smart devices are no longer exclusive to high-end buildings and industrial settings, they are becoming ubiquitous in our everyday environments, such as in educational and private spaces (e.g., households). While, for some of these devices, specifically the ones we own and have installed ourselves, we might have consented to the processing of our data, we do not have that choice for devices installed in public spaces. Moreover, previous research has shown that users tend to accept privacy policies, even if they do not completely understand them, given that the perceived value of the services they want to use outweighs their data processing concerns (if any). In this project, you will be creating a Digital Privacy Companion that looks after its users, by making them aware of the data processing activities of smart devices and by acting on their behalf to ensure that their privacy concerns are considered in the environment they are located in.
Creating a Digital Privacy Companion capable of:
Recognizing, through computer vision, smart devices that process (personal) user data;
Semantically understanding the privacy policies of such observed devices;
Communicating in an understandable way (through Mixed Reality) the privacy processing activities of diverse smart devices;
Identifying “legal rights” that can be exercised by the users while in an environment enabled with devices that process users (personal) data;
Utilizing uniform interfaces to act upon the smart devices that process users (personal) data (i.e., actionable privacy).
Creating a Digital Privacy Companion capable of: Recognizing, through computer vision, smart devices that process (personal) user data; Semantically understanding the privacy policies of such observed devices; Communicating in an understandable way (through Mixed Reality) the privacy processing activities of diverse smart devices; Identifying “legal rights” that can be exercised by the users while in an environment enabled with devices that process users (personal) data; Utilizing uniform interfaces to act upon the smart devices that process users (personal) data (i.e., actionable privacy).
Dr. Kimberly Garcia
kimberly.garcia@unisg.ch
Prof. Dr. Simon Mayer
simon.mayer@unisg.ch
Dr. Kimberly Garcia kimberly.garcia@unisg.ch Prof. Dr. Simon Mayer simon.mayer@unisg.ch