Privacy management for portable recording devices

  • Authors:
  • J. Alex Halderman;Brent Waters;Edward W. Felten

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The growing popularity of inexpensive, portable recording devices, such as cellular phone cameras and compact digital audio recorders, presents a significant new threat to privacy. We propose a set of technologies that can be integrated into recording devices to provide stronger, more accurately targeted privacy protections than other legal and technical measures now under consideration. Our design is based on an informed consent principle, which it supports by the use of novel devices and protocols that automate negotiations over consent and ensure appropriate safeguards on recorded data. We define the protocols needed for this purpose and establish their security. We also describe a working prototype implementation that safeguards audio recorded by laptop PCs in a wireless network.