Title
What You Mark is What Apps See.
Abstract
Users are increasingly vulnerable to inadvertently leaking sensitive information through cameras. In this paper, we investigate an approach to mitigating the risk of such inadvertent leaks called privacy markers. Privacy markers give users fine-grained control of what visual information an app can access through a device's camera. We present two examples of this approach: PrivateEye, which allows a user to mark regions of a two-dimensional surface as safe to release to an app, and WaveOff, which does the same for three-dimensional objects. We have integrated both systems with Android's camera subsystem. Experiments with our prototype show that a Nexus 5 smartphone can deliver near realtime frame rates while protecting secret information, and a 26-person user study elicited positive feedback on our prototype's speed and ease-of-use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2906388.2906405
MobiSys'16: The 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Singapore Singapore June, 2016
Field
DocType
ISBN
Mobile computing,Android (operating system),Computer science,Computer security,Nexus (standard),Frame rate,Information sensitivity
Conference
978-1-4503-4269-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.98
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nisarg Raval1685.85
Animesh Srivastava2503.54
Ali Razeen3826.93
Kiron Lebeck4715.07
Ashwin Machanavajjhala52624132.52
Landon P. Cox61396109.41