Paper Info
Title
Sensor tricorder: what does that sensor know about me?
Abstract
As rich sensing applications become pervasive, people increasingly find themselves with limited ability to determine what sensor data the applications are collecting about them and how the applications are using the sensor data. Openness and transparency serve as our guiding principles in designing the Sensor Tricorder, a system that enables people to query third party sensors with their smartphones in order to learn about the data collection activities and privacy policies of the applications using the sensors. We leverage the increasing ubiquity of QR Codes in mobile applications and utilize them in a novel way. Our prototype system uses active QR Codes to visually communicate dynamic data such as the sensor activities and application privacy policies to smartphone users. Based on our experiences in building this prototype, we identify the key properties that sensor platforms must provide to support transparency and openness and highlight the main challenges involved in realizing these properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2184489.2184510
HotMobile
Keywords
Field
DocType
dynamic data,party sensor,sensor data,qr codes,sensor activity,application privacy policy,sensor platform,active qr codes,data collection activity,sensor tricorder,privacy policy,visual communication,data collection
Data collection,Transparency (graphic),Sensing applications,Computer science,Privacy policy,Guiding Principles,Computer network,Third party,Dynamic data
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriel Maganis1988.05
Jaeyeon Jung22507172.63
Tadayoshi Kohno34540317.26
Anmol Sheth42231145.03
David Wetherall57819683.44